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Trade unionism and workers’ rights in the U.S. never recovered from the blow of Reagan firing striking air-traffic controllers.

This August, it will be 40 years since Ronald Reagan put an end to a strike of American air-traffic controllers.   When I met U.S.-born-and-raised Larry Giddy in his current home country of Australia, where he lives with his British-Australian wife Linda, I did not have any idea I had run into a successful U.S. political refugee.   It was under Reagan that the confrontation with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, or PATCO, reached its dramatic conclusion. And as an American citizen and air-traffic controller, Larry found himself right in the middle of it. Apart...