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Skirlick and other controllers met in Washington last week to organize the American Air Traffic Controllers Council, a replacement for the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, whose 11,400 striking members were fired in 1981. As with PATCO, overwork and understaffing are among the new group's chief complaints. Today there are 13,300 controllers; in 1981 there were 16,375. More significant, only 9,841 currently have "full performance" ratings, compared with 13,133 before the PATCO strike. About two years are required for neophyte controllers to be fully certified, so many council organizers favor rehiring some...
...illegal strike in 1981 that led to the mass firing of 11,400 of its members, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) paid the price of failure: it disbanded. For the past three years, as their ranks were gradually rebuilt to a current level of 12,000, most federal air controllers have been without union representation. Now, just as the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to lift the last of the strike-related traffic restrictions from the airways, three groups of controllers in New York and the Washington area have petitioned to reunionize. Their complaints: overwork and FAA mismanagement...
...true purpose of the Walesa choice been a championing of the right of workers to unionize, would not a more likely candidate been a leader of PATCO, brutally busted by the subtle tyranny of government regulations? Or perhaps, more appropriately, should Harvard not have invited one of the harried workers of Iowa Beef, who were savagely attacked by police and national guardsmen while the company was free to bring in scab labor? Couldn't some of these people tell a more significant story of lost freedom, black-listing, tyranny and oppression...
...plotline, though as irrelevant as usual t the rest of the proceedings, goes basically as follows. Heroine Angela Mercy's adlun Issacs) arrives in Collier Bluff to claim the untapped mind. The Patco Strike"--that belonged to her late her late father, Evan But Yuvantsum (Michael Rapposelli)--who incidentally something like A. Barilett Giamstti. Angela and Gustave acquire allies for her, the wimpy hotel proprietor Heat A. Nytheguy (John Stimpson) and heroic intervener Dwight Turheto. (Brooks Whitehouse): for him, mistress Helen Highwater (Terry, Ray, Robinson, town marshal Annie Gitchergun (Rick Reynold) Festus Gunnsinawest (Jonathan Isham). and old flame Micheal Loud...
...same bleak economic picture. Industrial recovery, as Chrysler learned, can come through close cooperation with organized labor. Yet President Reagan, formerly of the Screen Actors Guild, seems to have no more regard for unions than his counterpart across the Atlantic Reagan's wholesale liquidation of the air controllers union. PATCO, and his proposals for a flexible minimum wage and child labor standards fly in the face of trade union principles...