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...Meese, a Western omelet for Deaver) the breakfast talk turned to a prospective White House order allowing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to be hired for some Government jobs (though not again as controllers). Meese suggested some precise lawyerly language. Said Baker: "I think the PATCO stuff came out . . . " Deaver finished: ". . . just the way it should have...
...PATCO loses another round, and so do air travelers
...decision may have been the final blow for the former air controllers. The Federal Labor Relations Authority, which grants unions the right to represent a given group of workers, last week revoked that status from the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. The FLRA ruled that PATCO "willfully and intentionally" violated federal laws by striking three months ago and, as a result, "is no longer a labor organization." It was the first time that a union representing federal employees has been decreed out of existence, though the precedent is clouded: the bulk of the union's members who struck have...
Union President Robert Poli vowed that his union would appeal the decision to the federal courts. "We are still PATCO," he declared. "We are still proud." A federal court in Washington agreed to hear the case this week and has granted PATCO a temporary delay of the ruling. But some of Poll's members are pessimistic. Robert Westra, a former controller at Chicago's O'Hare Airport who is now trying to support himself as a carpenter, pronounced the decision "incredible." He saw only "a 5% hope" that he will be able to return to work. That...
...boon and bane of that region's travelers, decided to fold its wings at the end of the month after eleven years of operation. The shutdown will mean layoffs for 400 employees. A company announcement partly blamed "the decline in traffic and revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike." The airline had been forced to cut scheduled flights by 25% as a result of the firings. Air New England's celebrated clientele, which had long used the airline for transportation to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and other resort areas, are being picked up by Provincetown...