• strikes in other industries, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike on August 3, 1981, demanding higher wages and...
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  • The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until...
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  • former controllers fired during the 1981 strike by the previous union of the same name. Organized labour portal National Air Traffic Controllers Association...
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  • Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), which had been decertified following the well known 1981 air-traffic controllers' strike....
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    Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section...
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  • strike Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (2003), an independent labor union in the United States Professional Air Traffic Controllers...
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    1981, many air traffic controllers picketed outside the New York ARTCC facility in support of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization labor...
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    Reagan fired air traffic controllers and the PATCO union after the air traffic controllers' strike of 1981. The West Virginia teacher's strike in 2018 inspired...
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    Robert Edmund Poli (category Air traffic controllers' trade unions)
    leader who was president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) during its unsuccessful strike in 1981 against the Federal Aviation...
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    September 19, 1981 and August 31, 1991. Approximately 250,000–500,000 people took part in each march. On 3 August 1981, 12,500 air traffic controllers, members...
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  • Hospital. 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike 1981 Sierra Leone general strike, the first in the history of Sierra Leone. 1981 Stelco...
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    Marvin Aspen (category United States Air Force airmen)
    Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PATCO was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following...
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    ENAV (category Air traffic control)
    traffic control, which followed a sensational strike by air traffic controllers, currently all in force to the Air Force, which took place on October 19, 1979...
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    in litigation against the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, the union whose workers went on strike in 1981. Robb later was the director...
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    in a car accident in Buenos Aires. The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) went on strike at 7:00 am Eastern Time. The union's demand...
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    along with 11,358 other PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) members who were on strike. After that, he worked in Papua New Guinea, recruiting...
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  • of American law, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization declares a strike by the 17,000 air traffic controllers in the United States....
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    The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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    a year. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was the first strike that spread across multiple states in the U.S. The strike ended 52 days later, after it...
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  • common. In 1981 following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the Reagan administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had...
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    Ronald Reagan (category People from Bel Air, Los Angeles)
    as conservative. Early in August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) went on strike, violating a federal law prohibiting...
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    to strike (later enacted into law as 5 U.S.C. § 7311(3)). In 1981 the public sector union PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) went...
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    The 1981 labor-relations battle between President Reagan and FAA air traffic controllers, and Reagan's subsequent firing of most U.S. air traffic controllers...
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    Frank Lorenzo (category Eastern Air Lines)
    Texas Air, the parent company, but the campaign was unsuccessful and was called off because of the 1981 air traffic controllers' strike. New York Air, independently...
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    during its approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport. The air traffic controller's intervention avoided the impact with less than 90 seconds of distance...
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  • first female board member. 3 August 1981 (United States) Federal air traffic controllers began a nationwide strike after their union rejected the government's...
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  • Court. 1981 - In August, President Reagan fires 11,345 striking air traffic controllers. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968) 1981–1982...
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    Tim Scott compared the UAW strike to the 1981 strikes organized by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and praised former President...
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  • of Virginia in 1978, Gray resigned in 1981 in solidarity with jailed air traffic controllers that were on strike. Gray spent several decades in Virginia...
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    epidemic. [citation needed] The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968) (PATCO) declared a strike on 3 August 1981, seeking better working conditions...
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