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Firing Of ATC's In 1981  
User currently offlineDeltacvg From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 12 posts, RR: 0
Posted (8 years 5 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1715 times:

I came across an article about former President Reagan firing around 10,000 ATC controllers. Anybody know why he did this?

-Beat Army

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User currently offlineStowAway From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 640 posts, RR: 5
Reply 1, posted (8 years 5 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1693 times:

DeltaCVG,

There is a really good article about it here: http://www.buyandhold.com/bh/en/education/history/2001/ronaldreagan.html

Hope that helps!

StowAway @ BNA


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User currently offlineN766UA From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 7991 posts, RR: 27
Reply 2, posted (8 years 5 months 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1681 times:

The controllers illegally went on strike... Reagan gave them 24 hours to return to work, they didn't... they all got canned.


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User currently offlineAirways6max From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 494 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 3 days ago) and read 1649 times:

The air-traffic controllers went out on strike, which is illegal for federal employees. So Reagan fired them. They had 48 hours to return to work. If they did not, they lost their jobs. The ATCs in 1981 may have had legitimate grievances, but going out on strike, leaving the control towers unmanned and putting the safety of the flying public in jeopardy was not the answer.

User currently offlineDeltacvg From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 12 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (8 years 5 months 3 days ago) and read 1646 times:

StowAway,
The article explained a lot. Thank you.

-Beat Army

User currently offlineMCOtoATL From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 474 posts, RR: 5
Reply 5, posted (8 years 5 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 1547 times:

The article was interesting. I was reading "Splash of Colors" by John J. Nance, which is about Braniff (it's a great book, albeit out of print.)

He mentions that when the air traffic controllers were replaced, many of the veteran airline pilots were pleasantly surprised by the friendliness and helpfulness of the new controllers (the ones who were hired to replace the striking workers.)
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