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...Reagan Administration had, in effect, decided to ignore PATCO, whose increasingly discouraged members continued to picket the Federal Aviation Administration's regional and airport radar centers. The struggle thus was reduced to a test of the FAA'S ability to carry on with some 3,000 supervisors, 5,000 non-strikers and 900 military controllers until new replacements can be trained. | The system was operating , at roughly half of its former I level of staffing. Over the long run, the key question apparently would be one of economics: Could U.S. airlines, some of them already in financial trouble...
...computer-plotted plan, originally drawn up by former Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond when he learned more than a year ago that PATCO seemed determined to strike in 1981, requires each airline operating at a major airport to reduce its flights by a specified percentage that varies with every hour of the day. At New York's La Guardia, for example, the cutback jumps from 27% between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. to 49% in the following hour. At Chicago's O'Hare, the heaviest reduction, 60%, is between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Each airline...
...Angeles center, Controller Dennis DeGraff says that "hatefulness and bickering" had injected new stress before the strike, and that PATCO members "filed grievances on every little thing and management retaliated, and there was harassment on both sides." Now, he says, "we can move three times the traffic because we're all working together." The most stress, he adds, is crossing the picket lines. Bill Kolacek, a supervisor at the Aurora center near Chicago, compares running the picket line to his Army experience in Viet Nam. Driving up to the facility, he says, "I put my foot on the clutch...
Richard Leighton, a Washington lawyer who represents PATCO officials, is urging all fired controllers to pursue the appeals process to the end, making a number of arguments at every step. First, he says, they should challenge the seven-day notice as inadequate. Next, they should argue that they were ill, absent without leave, taking a sudden vacation or otherwise not actually on strike. Finally, Leighton suggests that fired controllers contend that they are not receiving equal protection under the law; if the FAA initially allowed strikers to return within 48 hours without being fired, he reasons, why cannot all strikers...
...uncovered in counseling more than 300 controllers. He calls them "the most stressed group" he has treated-more than auto executives in mid-recession, more than nurses or teachers or police, more than airline pilots. Beder, who has been a paid consultant to the controllers' striking union, PATCO, eagerly endorses what has become a key union bargaining claim: that the job imposes unique psychological pressure because, as he puts it, "one five-second error can lead to the loss of hundreds of lives...