Some call, “PATCO on steroids.” Faced with an existential crisis during the PATCO strike, the AFL-CIO, the United States’ main trade union federation led by Lane Kirkland, fumbled the ball.

On Friday, the Trump administration made the largest union busting move in American history when it eliminated the collective bargaining rights for tens of thousands of Transportation Security ...

Despite a major spike in strike and organizing activity, the proportion of the nation's workforce in unions declined last year to 10.1 percent, the lowest on record. Reagan's destruction of PATCO ...

In contrast, Reagan's crushing of the PATCO strike gave employers a green light to permanently replace striking workers in situations in which doing that was legal. Likewise, as we describe in our ...

Alehonso Jordan, who works overnights in Newark and lives in New York said he didn’t hear about the strike until a co-worker ...

when a combination of a series of corruption scandals and the Reagan administration’s breaking of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike in 1981 greatly weakened ...

It was 11,359, to be exact. Meanwhile, a federal judge found PATCO President Robert Poll in contempt and ordered him to pay $1,000 in fines each day the strike continued. And the final smackdown ...

“I hope we learned the lesson of PATCO. It was entirely within our ability ... federal civil service should prompt a national general strike. At the same time, Nelson warns Noem’s union ...