1981: Reagan Fires 11,000
Aug 05, 2019•6 min
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Ronald Reagan liked to point out that he was the first president who'd been a union chief, and he'd even led a strike. But when air-traffic controllers went out, he fired them. It was a devastating loss for organized labor.
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