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Reagan checked his anger and held his fire until after the strike was under way on Monday morning. Summoning reporters and photographers to the White House Rose Garden, he read a gently phrased statement. "I respect the right of workers in the private sector to strike,"he said. "Indeed, as president of my own union, I led the first strike ever called by that union [the Screen Actors Guild, 1959]." But Government, he said, "has to provide without interruption the protective services which are Government's reason for being." He noted that Congress (in 1947) passed a law forbidding strikes...
...Seattle, the world's leading maker of commercial aircraft, and Marriott Corp. of Washington, B.C., a hotel, entertainment and food services company that daily provided approximately 180,000 meals aloft before the strike. Airlines may be more dependent upon computers and data-processing equipment than any other private sector of the U.S. economy outside of banking and finance...
...reason that South Carolina now has the third fastest growing industrial sector of any state in the U.S. is Charleston International Airport. Among the companies that have set up factories within an easy drive of the twin-runway airport: Cummins Engine, Du Pont, Levi Strauss, Memorex, Celanese and Exxon. Says Michael Kazeef, a manager for Alumax Inc., a leading aluminum producer: "In Washington State, the airport is 120 miles from our plant and going there was a big inconvenience. For any large company, an airport close by is a necessity. Vendors, salesmen, parts, cargo, company officials, you name...
...stress, they will be just the start. Before long, all public employees will be facing pink slips should-they dare to ask for more money (money Reagan must use to bloat the defense budget and the safes of oil companies), and with that precedent, it will soon be private-sector employees accused of tampering with national security. Hello, 1890s...
...Solidarity (a worthwhile goal, however). But there is much it can do, and no better time than the present to do it, when the nation's attention is focused on the controllers. Every other major union in the country--especially the AFL-CIO, which represents so many public sector employees--should back PATCO, and with more than words. If need be, a general walkout should be called, beginning with the unions nearest in occupation to the controllers--the pilots, the ticket clerks, the porters. And, if necessary, the rest of organized labor should follow...