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Capitalism in America: A History
by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words
UNBOUND Reagan has three undeniable economic achievements to his name. First, he broke the power of the unions. He began his presidency by delivering a knockout blow to the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO). In 1981, the air traffic controllers defied federal law (and put the country’s airways in danger) by going on strike in
Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Wolfgang Streeck · 1 Jan 2013 · 353pp · 81,436 words
of social integration and thus raise again the old legitimation problems. 62 Two dramatic and symbolically important turning-points were Reagan’s breaking of the air traffic controllers’ union in 1981 and Thatcher’s defeat of the miners in 1984. 63 Fig. 1.7 leaves out Italy’s very high strike rates of the
The Globalization of Inequality
by François Bourguignon · 1 Aug 2012 · 221pp · 55,901 words
. There was, of course, the fact that certain governments, like those of Reagan and Thatcher, were hostile to union activity— which, as we remember, was played out rather spectacularly with regard to air traffic controllers in one case and miners in the other. But this explanation is not sufficient; the causes behind the decline
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
by Martin Sandbu · 15 Jun 2020 · 322pp · 84,580 words
change. Elsewhere, however, collective bargaining has been eroded by governments sometimes deliberately acting to weaken unions. The iconic case comes from the first year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when he refused to accommodate demands by the air traffic controllers. In the standoff that followed, the union (which had endorsed Reagan as president) was
The City
by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words
standards by the US government and business, in particular through the use of migrant labour and the marginalisation of labour unions. A signal event was the Reagan administration’s destruction of the air traffic controllers’ union, PATCO, after it declared a strike in 1981 – a destruction intended pour encourager les autres. These measures would
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich · 24 Mar 2020 · 154pp · 47,880 words
.4 percent of them are. Starting in the 1980s, and with increasing ferocity since then, private-sector employers have fought unions. Surely Ronald Reagan’s decision to fire the nation’s air-traffic controllers, who went on an illegal strike, signaled to private-sector employers that fighting unions was legitimate. But it was really
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--And a Plan to Stop It
by Lawrence Lessig · 4 Oct 2011 · 538pp · 121,670 words
,060 7,060 International Assn. of Fire Fighters 7,000 0 7,000 Global Companies 0 7,000 7,000 National Air Traffic Controllers’ Assn. 7,000 0 7,000 Sheet Metal Workers’ Union 12,000 0 12,000 Textron Inc. 7,000 0 7,000 Beal Co. 0 5,800 5,800 Manulife
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
by Jack D. Schwager · 24 Apr 2012 · 272pp · 19,172 words
intensive; they are people intensive; they are difficult to manage; they have to rely on an inefficient government air traffic control system; and if, despite all of that, they ever manage to make money, the unions start asking for more wages, so they don’t make money then, either. That’s a persuasive “bullish
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
in five people out of work. Thatcher’s buddy Ronald Reagan won office that year and followed her path, slashing tax rates and breaking the air-traffic controllers’ union. The economic and political crisis of the 1970s had begun the process of deindustrialization, and Thatcher, Volcker, and Reagan stepped on the accelerator. Production was
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 15 Mar 2015 · 409pp · 125,611 words
percent of their income in taxes, far lower than those with more moderate incomes. Reagan’s breaking of the air-traffic controllers’ strike is often cited as a critical juncture in the weakening of unions, one of the factors explaining why workers have done so badly in recent decades. But there are other factors
Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato · 31 Jul 2016 · 370pp · 102,823 words
threat of job loss by the moving of jobs abroad has contributed to weakening the power of unions. But politics has also played a major role, exemplified in President Reagan’s breaking of the air traffic controllers’ strike in the US in 1981 or Margaret Thatcher’s battle against the National Union of Mineworkers
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 1 Jan 2004 · 475pp · 149,310 words
market freedom would not have existed if Prime Minister Thatcher had not defeated the miners in Wales and if President Reagan had not destroyed the union of air traffic controllers. All the proponents of free markets know deep down that only political regulation and force allow for the free market. The compatibility between political
The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery
by Stewart Lansley · 19 Jan 2012 · 223pp · 10,010 words
wars ever’. Ronald Reagan played his own role in this war. Soon after he became President, he embarked on a bitter battle with PATCO—the air traffic controllers’ union. A technically illegal strike, Reagan eventually sacked 11,000 of the strikers— only 2000 had stayed in their posts—in August 5, 1981, and banned
The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
by Timothy Noah · 23 Apr 2012 · 309pp · 91,581 words
withdrew thanks to RBA.” The presidency of Ronald Reagan was the first to adopt a public stance that was openly and unapologetically anti-union.22 In 1981, when the air-traffic controllers’ union defied a legal prohibition against going on strike, Reagan fired the entire workforce and replaced it with scab labor. Rather than
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by Robert D. Putnam · 12 Oct 2020 · 678pp · 160,676 words
employer and conservative opposition, symbolized by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (passed over Harry Truman’s veto) that limited unions’ room for action, and by the breaking of a national air traffic controllers strike by the new Reagan administration in 1981.82 (A burst of state legislation in the 1960s allowed substantial growth
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
restrictive monetary policy. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, disinflation was accompanied by determined attacks on trade unions by governments and employers, epitomized by Reagan’s victory over the air traffic controllers and Thatcher’s breaking of the National Union of Mineworkers. In subsequent years, inflation rates throughout the capitalist world
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles · 30 May 2022 · 318pp · 91,957 words
workforce that was unionized. Once again Welch was on the vanguard. Around the country, unions were losing power. In 1981, President Reagan fired 11,359 unionized air traffic controllers for going on strike, emboldening companies to take a tougher line with organized labor. In 1985, employees at Hormel, the meat processor, began a strike
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey · 2 Jan 1995 · 318pp · 85,824 words
Reserve. The Reagan administration then provided the requisite political backing through further deregulation, tax cuts, budget cuts, and attacks on trade union and professional power. Reagan faced down PATCO, the air traffic controllers’ union, in a lengthy and bitter strike in 1981. This signalled an allout assault on the powers of organized labour at
The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
by Peter Temin · 17 Mar 2017 · 273pp · 87,159 words
signaled a sea change in politics that had been engineered by corporate leaders responding to Powell’s secret memo. Reagan destroyed the flight controllers’ union—the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO)—at the start of his administration, even though PATCO was the only union that had supported him, signaling his intent to continue
Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul Volcker and Christine Harper · 30 Oct 2018 · 363pp · 98,024 words
one important but little-recognized contribution to the fight against inflation. In August 1981 he fired thousands of striking air traffic controllers. While the strike was aimed at working conditions more than wages, the union defeat sent a powerful psychological message that there would be limits on wage demands. Still, relationships with the Treasury
MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words
form of keeping interest rates at nosebleed levels, bringing the second dip of the double-dip recession. When the air traffic controllers went on strike, Reagan fired them all—sending a message that no union workers were irreplaceable. That helped dampen wage demands. But ultimately, it was Paul Volcker’s crippling interest rates that
Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
by Edward McClelland · 2 Feb 2021 · 264pp · 74,785 words
so-called “right-to-work” laws possible. Ronald Reagan’s firing of the striking air traffic controllers in 1981 was considered the most decisive signal that the federal government would henceforth take the side of employers rather than unions. Collective bargaining is inimical to the conservative ideal of the rugged individual. The labor movement
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker · 14 Sep 2010 · 602pp · 120,848 words
. Reagan’s election accelerated Washington’s shift to the right on economic issues. Deregulatory momentum got an additional boost. Reagan’s famous showdown with the air-traffic controllers union, in which striking workers were summarily fired, was just the most visible face of an aggressively antiunion posture apparent in both the NLRB and the
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
by Duff McDonald · 24 Apr 2017 · 827pp · 239,762 words
and for all. And they succeeded. The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 only solidified their victory, both in terms of unions (Reagan’s firing of the nation’s striking air traffic controllers in August 1981 is widely viewed as signaling the end of the American labor movement) and regulations (instead of the dangerous
Hopes and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Jan 2009
, who tried to block the destruction of a home.21 Apparently forgotten, however, was something else. Following Reagan’s lead with the dismantling of the air traffic controllers union, the new hardline CEO of Caterpillar, Donald Fites, rescinded the contract with the United Auto Workers in 1991, instituted a lockout, threatened to bring in
Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
by Steven Rattner · 19 Sep 2010 · 394pp · 124,743 words
did we believe that Barack Obama would be willing to discharge the autoworkers the way Ronald Reagan had fired the air traffic controllers in 1981. The idea that a Democratic administration would engage in union-busting was unimaginable. So even in bankruptcy, we'd have been right back at the table with Gettelfinger—only
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom gained substantial public support by facing down powerful unions. In 1981, Reagan fired over eleven thousand striking unionized government air-traffic controllers, and banned them from federal service for life. Thatcher went against unionized public-sector coal miners, who were protesting the closure of collieries. The
Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
frenzy. In 1981, reacting to a dispute over wages and working conditions between the air traffic controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration, Reagan broke the air traffic controllers’ union by firing and replacing the striking workers. Since the consolidation of the New Deal social contract at the end of World War II, employers had
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
levels, in the name of labor flexibility, have worked to weaken them. President Reagan’s breaking of the air traffic controllers strike in 1981 represented a critical juncture in the breaking of the strength of unions.32 Part of the conventional wisdom in economics of the past three decades is that flexible labor markets
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
workers to come to Washington to protest President Ronald Reagan’s firing of air traffic controllers in a Solidarity Day held that September. Fast-forward three decades, to a protest held at the National Mall in 2010, and the labor unions could pull together only a small fraction of that number, with turnout lower
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
maintain social order in communities whose hearts had been ripped out. The attack on organized labour was punctuated by signal moments. In 1981, the US air traffic control union leaders were arrested, paraded in chains, and the entire workforce sacked for taking strike action. Thatcher used paramilitary policing to destroy the miners’ strike in
The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 1 Sep 2020 · 134pp · 41,085 words
revolt against big government, excessive taxation and bureaucracy.”6 Reagan relished a battle with Leviathan, whether it came in the shape of the Soviet Union or the air traffic controllers union. But Thatcher was bolder in reforming government, partly because Britain was in so much worse shape than America and partly because she didn
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn · 14 Jan 2020 · 307pp · 96,543 words
presidency, he famously declared in his inaugural address in 1981, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” He broke the air traffic controllers’ union, worker protections declined and the business world became much more powerful. As hostility toward government spread in America, there have been determined efforts to cut
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words
the penny. The deregulation of trucking, airlines, and telecommunications, allowed for increased start-ups, but it also affected large, unionized companies. Finally, President Ronald Reagan’s firing of 11,500 striking air traffic controllers, and the disbanding of their union, paved the way for other companies to copy such hard-nosed tactics. While the
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
both Reagan and Thatcher orchestrated confrontations with big labour, either directly in the case of Reagan’s showdown with the air traffic controllers and Thatcher’s fierce fight with the miners and the print unions, or indirectly through the creation of unemployment. Alan Budd, Thatcher’s chief economic adviser, later admitted that ‘the 1980s
Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words
extended to environmental legislation and to the financial sector.9 The new president also quickly took on the unions. In the summer of 1981, about seven months into his first term, Reagan clashed with air-traffic controllers in a dispute that hugely disrupted air travel across the country. (I remember it well, since I
Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It
by Azeem Azhar · 6 Sep 2021 · 447pp · 111,991 words
was on a similar trajectory. In 1981, the newly elected Ronald Reagan fired over 11,000 striking air-traffic controllers and replaced them with non-union members. It marked a turning point in the history of American trade unionism. As a result, there was little unionisation in the early tech industry. This was still true
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
nationalization and government ownership. There was deregulation of the labor markets. Facing a strike by federal air traffic controllers, Reagan, once president of the Screen Actors Guild, declared an emergency and ultimately fired over 11,000 striking controllers, effectively busting the union. In the UK Thatcher and her trusted enforcer Norman Tebbit defeated the National
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
with its taxes and services was a drag on high economic growth. In the US, President Reagan famously fired all air traffic controllers who participated in a union-organized strike, thereby breaking the back of unions in the US. And in the UK, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke a major miners’ strike, ending the dominance
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
by Tom McGrath · 3 Jun 2024 · 326pp · 103,034 words
forfeited their jobs and will be terminated,” Reagan said on August 3, as the thirteen thousand members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) walked off the job. About thirteen hundred union members did return to work; the rest Reagan not only fired but banned from federal employment for the rest of their
What's the Matter with White People
by Joan Walsh · 19 Jul 2012 · 284pp · 85,643 words
when he fired the striking air traffic controllers in 1981. It’s not that the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was an enormous union, but it symbolized a problem for labor that Republicans recognized before Democrats did: as unions lost power in the private sector, their only gains were coming in the public sector
How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present
by Thomas J. Dilorenzo · 9 Aug 2004 · 283pp · 81,163 words
relentless campaign in support of the labor unions, Moore spreads the myth that everything was going perfectly well for America’s labor unions until President Reagan fired the federal air traffic controllers for their illegal strike in 1982. (Laws prohibit such government employees from going on strike because these employees effectively have a monopoly
Year 501
by Noam Chomsky · 19 Jan 2016
would “permanently change it with the threat of replacement workers.” That tactic, standard in the 19th century, was reinstituted by Ronald Reagan to destroy the air traffic controllers union (PATCO) in 1981, one of the many devices adopted to undermine labor and bring the Third World model home. In 1990, Caterpillar shifted some production
The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
big government. And their methods were often raw—if not brutal. They both took on the labor unions—Thatcher's most memorable battle being with the coal miners, and Reagan's with the air traffic controllers. They privatized portions of the government that many members of the public had come to consider their own
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 words
text. Abbott Labs, 38, 41 Access Now, 214 accountability, 112, 128, 147 ACLU, 223 ad blockers, 16 African Union, 89 airline safety, 144 airplanes: bugs in, 41 remote control of, 1–2, 16 air traffic control, 210 Alexa (Amazon’s virtual assistant), 4, 61 Alexander, Keith, 118 algorithms: accurate inputs required by, 84 autonomous, 7
The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard · 15 Mar 2006
, president of the AFL-CIO, joined a picket line with members of the striking air traffic controllers. In Toronto, three controllers were suspended for showing sympathy in refusing to clear flights to the United States. PATCO appealed for other unions in the United States and abroad to honor their strike and boycott sending planes to
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
to heel, both by changing the laws and by directly using state power against them (Reagan, famously, called out the army to break an air traffic controllers’ strike). Union membership has been in decline ever since.26 Regulations were made less restrictive, and there was a new consensus that a very compelling justification should
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
government support for collective bargaining and progressive taxation. In 1981, he fired more than 10,000 air traffic controllers who had gone on strike for better pay and improved working conditions. Reagan’s bold move stunned the union, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which had endorsed Reagan in the 1980 election. It signaled
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns · 16 Jan 2024 · 327pp · 110,234 words
percent to 28 percent by the time he left office. Reagan and Thatcher both had strong anti-union policies, and had no qualms about firing workers on strike. In 1981, Reagan fired 11,000 striking air traffic controllers and barred them from ever working again for the federal government. Similarly, Margaret Thatcher reacted much
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
, and it discussed whether workers in such professions might follow the lead of federal air traffic controllers, who’d recently unionized. I wasn’t romantic or enthusiastic about unions the way liberals used to be. The basic college-educated-liberal attitude toward unions was evolving from solidarity to indifference to suspicion, the result of a crackup
Why Airplanes Crash: Aviation Safety in a Changing World
by Clinton V. Oster, John S. Strong and C. Kurt Zorn · 28 May 1992 · 217pp · 152 words
Regulations that applies to many U.S. scheduled regional/commuter airlines and to some air taxi services. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) The air traffic controllers labor union that voted to strike in 1981 and whose members subsequently were fired by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Pilot deviation Pilot action that results
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
organization (the network enterprise on a global scale).151 When necessary, politically induced offensive strategies helped the historical/structural trends working against the unions (for example, Reagan and the air traffic controllers, Thatcher and the coal miners). But even socialist governments in France and Spain went on changing the conditions of the labor market
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It
by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan · 15 Mar 2014 · 414pp · 101,285 words
of missing cargo.9 It is also worth noting that such disruptions are not always accidental. In February 2012, for example, strikes of the union of air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport led to the cancellation of 22 percent of daily flights.10 That even a planned upset, as opposed to an unpredictable hazard
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
with its taxes and services was a drag on high economic growth. In the US, President Reagan famously fired all air traffic controllers who participated in a union-organized strike, thereby breaking the back of unions in the US. And in the UK, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher broke a major miners’ strike, ending the dominance
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by Brian Dear · 14 Jun 2017 · 708pp · 223,211 words
then-new jet. Another group that benefited from PLATO was the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). When President Ronald Reagan fired the striking members of the air traffic controllers union in 1981, the FAA was suddenly forced to hire a large number of new personnel and train them as quickly and effectively as possible on
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross · 13 Sep 2021 · 363pp · 109,077 words
halt over the past forty years. If the golden age of the American union began with the GM sit-down strike, the event that marked its end was the PATCO strike. In the summer of 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was stuck in heated negotiations with the Federal Aviation Administration, demanding
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum · 4 Sep 2019 · 614pp · 174,226 words
important contributions to the war on inflation was his decision to fire hundreds of striking air traffic controllers, a stiff blow to the faltering labor movement. “The significance was that someone finally took on an aggressive, well-organized union and said no,” Volcker said.77 Friedman, the high priest of monetarism, had long preached
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
by David Hoffman · 1 Jan 2009 · 719pp · 209,224 words
. Twenty minutes into the flight, he switched off his communications gear and turned east. Finnish air traffic controllers feared he had crashed and launched a rescue effort. Rust disappeared into the clouds. It was a holiday in the Soviet Union: "Border Guards Day."30 At 2:25 P.M., the Cessna, with a small
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
the White House. His signature incident occurred in his first year, when he fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers and decertified their union. To the press, the president quoted an air traffic controller who quit the union and reported to work as ordered: “How can I ask my kids to obey the law if I
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
by Peter Robison · 29 Nov 2021 · 382pp · 105,657 words
council at the White House. The new president’s firing of 11,345 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association had shocked the leadership of the country’s most powerful white-collar labor union. Federal law barred workers in essential industries from walking out, but many presidents, including Richard Nixon during a
Air Crashes and Miracle Landings: 60 Narratives
by Christopher Bartlett · 11 Apr 2010 · 543pp · 143,135 words
seat may have acted thus because he was from the ‘old school’ and had considerable experience of flying in the Soviet Union where TCAS is little used and obeying the air traffic controller would be the norm and built into his psyche. Be that as it may, psychologically speaking, once having just started taking
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
Reagan extremist—but better a “competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” Reagan was also about to receive the nod from the seventeen-thousand-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization union, who said Carter had “mismanaged” the air traffic control system, while Reagan understood “the vital role of the professional controller”: the endorsement came in
Red Rabbit
by Tom Clancy and Scott Brick · 2 Jan 2002
we can do about it. He'll probably make a speech next week about the nobility of the workingman, especially the unionized sort." "Good," Ritter grunted. "Let him tell the air-traffic controllers." The DDO was the master of the cheap shot, though he had the good sense not to say such things in
Hard Landing
by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr. · 1 Jan 1995 · 726pp · 210,048 words
after People Express had conducted its maiden flight, 13,000 of the nation’s air traffic controllers walked off the job. Under federal law the strike was illegal. President Ronald Reagan ordered the controllers’ union, PATCO, to call off the walkout. The union refused, He ordered the strikers, as individuals, back to work. They refused. Two
Little Failure: A Memoir
by Gary Shteyngart · 7 Jan 2014
crave that forbidden salo, which you can’t really buy at the Grand Union anyway, almost as much as I crave my father’s love. We have walked the lengths and breadths of Deepdale Gardens, past the FAA Air Traffic Control Facility down the street with its five skyscraper-sized antennas, past the playground
The Docks
by Bill Sharpsteen · 5 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 29,543 words
local newspaper where she works as a food writer when she isn’t organizing cargo on ships, a union job she describes as a cross between solving a jigsaw puzzle and sorting out air traffic control. She claims she was the first woman casual clerk, starting out in 1974, and, as such, the direct