CSPAN2 Book TV December 12, 2011
>> pledging not to return until the government raise their pay, shortened workweek, took other measures, to reduce the stress of their jobs. the walkout was more than a new story. the strikers were members of the professional air traffic controllers organization, patco, taking that grown out of the persistent efforts of transit and other veterans to organize in the aftermath of the 1960s disaster. it took several years and some effort to build that union, maher was its cofounder. he gave it its name. in 1981 he was no longer formally connected to patco having resigned fr...
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