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The Cost of Defying the President
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- hueving 10y agoTldr. Long article about the wonders of unions and how Reagan was mean to the federal employee unions.
- Neliquat 10y agoFiltered through the rose tinted glasses of their parents memories no less.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments.
- inanutshellus 10y agoThe wording hints at bias against the article's own, but I found it to be an accurate, succinct comment nonetheless.
- dang 10y agoI wonder whether accuracy and succinctness are sufficient for substantive discussion.
- inanutshellus 10y agoIs substantive discussion the only measure of value on an HN board post? Personally, I find the lack of a synopsis ("why you should click this link") frustrating in HN. It leads to claims of "click bait" because, frankly, if you don't make a click-bait-y title, I'm not as likely to ... click. "Wait, what IS the secret to happiness in silicon valley?" Point being, most HN discussions offer insight into what the link actually is, since HN itself doesn't provide that with just a gimmicky title. Does a summarizing comment unfairly boil down a long read? Yes. Does it still provide value to those that want it? Yes. Both are reasonable assessments of value.
- hueving 10y agoI'm sorry, but the article was very long without any meaningful points being made that haven't been beaten to death. I felt that it warranted a short note about what readers can expect, especially since it's just a political article and nothing 'hackerish' IMO.
- morsch 10y agoHere's some background for the strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr... The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PATCO was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike that was broken by the Reagan Administration. According to labor historian Joseph A. McCartin, the 1981 strike and defeat of PATCO was "one of the most important events in late twentieth century U.S. labor history".
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- hu3 10y agotldr: "The moment the strike was called, the President, armed with several contingency plans, replaced striking controllers with a skeleton crew of military personnel, F.A.A. brass, new hires ushered through training, and, of course, controllers who had chosen not to strike. Rumors abounded that the skies were plagued with near-misses and flights rerouted to alternative airports, but no deaths were ever reported. (It was ruled that the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the frozen Potomac, on January 13, 1982, which killed seventy-eight, was due to errors by the pilot and crew.) The public suffered an inconvenience on the magnitude of a gas shortage or a natural disaster, and for that inconvenience, by and large, the public blamed patco. Although diehards continued to picket for weeks, the strike officially ended on its third day, August 5, 1981, the day that striking controllers were terminated. The Reagan Administration won an order decertifying patco altogether on October 22, 1981, and rewarded scabs handsomely for their loyalty. Many of their rewards mirrored patco’s original demands."