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Ironically, the union that symbolizes best the group of workers closest to the President is the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Union, which in fact endorsed Reagan as a candidate. The PATCO employees, along with workers in such heavy industries as steel, automobiles, petroleum refining, mining, construction, and most defense-related industries have annual incomes significantly above the U.S. median. The gap in wages and benefits between these workers and those in lighter, more labor-intensive industries such as textiles, furniture, jewelry, and all sorts of non-professional service has increased steadily since the Second World War. In 1950, the typical...
...expense of the CETA and Social Security payments. So, it is up to us to wonder exactly what if any solidarity exists among American working people in the United States. Although union leaders defend the air traffic controllers strike officially, they must have little sympathy for PATCO because the growing trend of strikes by public employee has loomed large in the declining popularity of organized labor. The president's legislative successes this summer in implementing the proposals that attracted many blue-collar workers last November can hardly be a cause of solidarity...
Despite the rising productivity of blue collar workers and the declining productivity of managers, as documented by MIT economist Lester Thurow, union members are being asked to bear the brunt of America's economic decline. Though many workers have risen to middle class stature and find the PATCO strike distasteful, the business-labor alliance may not last long at all. Washington's September 19 Solidarity Day is the first symbolic hint of these shifting winds...
...summer, federally employed postal workers went on strike, delaying mail for more than two months and imperiling several small businesses. The postal employees have a legal right to strike, but Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau came under fire for not dealing with the dispute as "strongly" as Reagan dealt with PATCO...
...election result (socialist Dan Heap edged Trudeau's former chief adviser, Jim Coutts) showed a public impatient with the economy and intolerant of strikers. When Reagan fired PATCO members, his decision was widely applauded...