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Unlike DSOC bigshot and machinists' union president "Wimpy" Winpisinger who opposes the acts of labor solidarity which could quickly win the air traffic controllers' strike, we call on labor to use its power to shut down the airports to defend the PATCO strikers. While DSOC stands with Polish Solidarity in calling for capitalist restoration in league with the Catholic Church, we unconditionally defend from imperialism those states which have already overthrown capitalism. For those who want to see a fundamental change in society, join the SYL in our fight for international workers revolution to put an end to capitalist oppression...
...Federal Aviation Administration continues to echo Reagan's tough position that this is no longer a strike but a challenge to the law of the land. The agency maintains that the strike is officially over and that the workers will never be able to return to their jobs. PATCO gamely insists that its mem bers will eventually be back in their towers. Meanwhile, the FAA is continuing its efforts to take away PATCO's rights to bargain for workers with the Government. The Federal Labor Relations Authority is expected to rule on the issue this week...
...union and its supporters are also still trying to persuade pilots and passengers that air travel is no longer safe. Warned Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, one of the founders of the air controllers' union and a pilot himself: "Air commerce is not a giant sandbox in which PATCO and the Government ought to be playing war games...
...lanes are now being monitored by some 10,000 controllers, about 7,200 fewer than before the strike: 5,700 of them are PATCO members who refused to walk out or nonunion controllers; 3,000 supervisors; 850 military draftees; and 450 new employees. The FAA has nearly 900 students enrolled at its academy in Oklaloma City, which has gone on double shifts for the 17-to 20-week courses and is planning to increase its training capacity still further. Even at that, it will be perhaps three years before the controller system is fully restaffed. It is unlikely that...
...airlines, the PATCO walkout is not nearly as damaging as had been feared. Many carriers are using it as an excuse to lay off unneeded employees, sell fuel-inefficient aircraft, trim unprofitable routes, goad pilots into working more hours a month and otherwise shape up their companies. Says an official for Braniff, one of the biggest money losers among airlines: "The industry is doing house cleaning it should have done anyway...