Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #AFSCME #PATCO #strike #atlanta #CivilRights #sanitation #blackpower #wages #poverty #reagan

Managed to take four new #trains today:

* Amtrak's Pennsylvanian
* SEPTA subway
* SEPTA trolley
* PATCO Speedline

https://legoktm.com/w/index.php?title=Trains&type=revision&diff=318&oldid=296

Probably won't take the Pennsylvanian again since the seats were all backwards - I assume this is because it turns around in PHL to head west to PGH and that's the longer leg. NE Regional is frequent enough that I can avoid it if I'm just going down to Philly.

#Amtrak #SEPTA #PATCO

> On August 5, 1981, President #RonaldReagan fired every member of the air traffic controllers union (PATCO) who'd defied his order to return to work and declared their union illegal. They had been on strike for just two days.
> It was a bold and brash move. No one had ever tried it. What made it even bolder was that #PATCO was one of only two unions that had endorsed Reagan..
https://www.nj.com/bayonne/2011/08/30_years_ago_--_the_day_the_mi.html
#USAirTraffic #AirTrafficControllers #uspol #ReaganAir

(Thanks) @Lana

January 20 2025
Trump fires FAA Director

January 21: Trump freezes Air Traffic Controller hiring

January 22: Trump disbands Aviation Safety Advisory Committee

January 28: Trump sends buyout/retirement demand to existing FAA employees

January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

(So Trump blames collision on not me Others-them-DEI )

Trump 2025 extends Reagan 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

#Airlineworkers #AirTrafficControl #laborMovement #PATCO #Reagan #unions

Kenso Baby

https://photos.reasonably.social/Y52/i-PTkq2QH/A

#photography #JpegPhotography #Philadelphia #PATCO #Subway #EndStageCapitalism

RIP NYA

https://photos.reasonably.social/Y52/i-tr3tWBB/A

#photography #JPEGphotography #Philadelphia #Graffiti #PATCO

Today in Labor History October 20, 1980: As a presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan wrote a letter to PATCO President Robert Poli promising that if the air traffic controllers union endorsed him, he would “take whatever steps necessary to provide them with the most modern equipment available and to adjust staff levels and work days so that they were commensurate with achieving a maximum degree of public safety.” The union naively endorsed Reagan and, within a few short months, President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers for engaging in an “illegal walkout” over staffing levels and working conditions. Their nationwide strike began on August 3, 1981, after workers rejected the government's final contract offer. Most of the 13,000 strikers ignored orders to go back to work and were fired on August 5. The mass firing of unionized workers, and the inability of the labor movement, as a whole, to respond to the crisis, led to the rapid downhill spiral of union power and membership. For example, in the years immediately after the PACTO strike, other major employers chose to fire striking workers en masse and replace them with scabs (e.g., Phelps Dodge, 1983; Hormel, 1985-1986; and International Paper, 1987). In the 14 years leading up to the PATCO strike, an average of 2.3 million U.S. workers per year were engaging in strikes and job actions. In the 10 years immediately after the PATCO strike, there was an 80% drop in strikes, with an average of 414,000 people on strike each of those years. And from 2001-2017, the number of U.S. workers who were striking each year had declined even further to an average of only 84,000 per year. There was a slight uptick in 2018 and 2019 with over 400,000 strikers each of those years, and again in 2023, with nearly 478,000 workers on strike. (Data is still pending for 2024, which is looking like another high number). But to this day, there has not been a single year where the number of striking U.S. workers has risen above 20% of the average prior to the PATCO strike.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #patco #AirTrafficControllers #reagan #unionbusting #phelpsdodge #hormel #solidarity #strikewave

Is this PATCO sign suggesting there is an easy transfer from 8th and Market to the Broad Street Line? Why not 15/16th and Locust? #philly #patco

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1981, Reagan fired over 10,000 air traffic controllers who were on #strike. He claimed the #PATCO strike imperilled national safety -- a lie, since demands could have been met. Now compare Dems reaction to Biden doing the same damned thing to rail workers.

8/5/1981 - President Ronald Reagan, having ordered striking air traffic controllers back to work within 48 hours, fired 11,359 (more than 70%) who ignored the order, & permanently banned them from federal service (a ban later lifted by President Bill Clinton). The controllers, seeking a shorter workweek among other things, were concerned the long hours they were required to work performing their high-stress jobs were a danger to both their health and the public safety.
#PATCO #UnionBusterReagan

Today in Labor History August 3, 1981: U.S. federal air traffic controllers began a nationwide strike after their union, PATCO, rejected the government's final contract offer. Most of the 13,000 strikers ignored orders to go back to work and were fired on August 5 by President Reagan for participating in an illegal work stoppage. Reagan's action, and the inability of the labor movement to respond to the crisis, led to the rapid downhill spiral of union power and membership. For example, in the years immediately after the PACTO strike, other major employers chose to fire striking workers and replace them with scabs (e.g., Phelps Dodge, 1983; Hormel, 1985-1986; and International Paper, 1987). In 1970, there were 380 major strikes. In 1999, there were only 17. And in 2010, there were only 11. However, there was a 50% increase in workers going on strike between 2021 and 2022. And more than double the number of workers went gone on strike in 2023 compared with 2022.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #union #patco #reagan #unionbusting #strikewave

Drummer Kid

https://www.erik365.com/Y52/i-6w7CfRX/A

#photography #ColorPhotography #StreetArt #Graffiti #BleakAndBadLuckArts #Philadelphia #PATCO #Philly

Today in Labor History July 1, 1983: Copper miners began a strike against Phelps-Dodge in Clifton, Arizona. During the strike, company-owned railroad bridges were set on fire and strikers smashed windows of scab vehicles. Governor Bruce Babbitt repeatedly sent in state police and National Guardsmen to suppress and ultimately crush the 3-year-long strike. Replacement workers then voted to decertify the union in the largest mass decertification in U.S. history. 35 locals of 13 different unions representing Phelps-Dodge workers were all decertified. Within a couple of years, their profits skyrocketed 15-fold to $420 million per year. This was one of the most effective and historically significant union-busting campaigns of the post-WWII era, along with the PACTCO strike, and Reagan’s mass-firing of the air traffic controllers in 1981.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #copper #miners #arizona #unionbusting #union #strike #police #policebrutality #phelpsdodge #patco #reagan #scabs

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #AFSCME #PATCO #strike #atlanta #CivilRights #sanitation #blackpower #wages #poverty #reagan

Today in Labor History October 20, 1980: As a presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan wrote a letter to PATCO President Robert Poli promising that if the union endorsed him, he would “take whatever steps necessary to provide air traffic controllers with the most modern equipment available and to adjust staff levels and work days so that they are commensurate with achieving a maximum degree of public safety.” The union naively endorsed Reagan and, within a few short months, President Reagan fired the air traffic controllers for engaging in an illegal walkout over staffing levels and working conditions.On August 3, 1981: U.S. federal air traffic controllers began a nationwide strike after their union, PATCO, rejected the government's final contract offer. Most of the 13,000 strikers ignored orders to go back to work and were fired on August 5 by President Reagan for participating in an illegal work stoppage. Reagan's action, and the inability of the labor movement to respond to the crisis, led to the rapid downhill spiral of union power and membership. For example, in the years immediately after the PACTO strike, other major employers chose to fire striking workers and replace them with scabs (e.g., Phelps Dodge, 1983; Hormel, 1985-1986; and International Paper, 1987). In 1970, there were 380 major strikes. In 1999, there were only 17. And in 2010, there were only 11. However, there was a 50% increase in workers going on strike between 2021 and 2022. And more than double the number of workers have gone on strike in 2023 compared with 2022, with 2 more months to go.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #union #strike #patco #AirTrafficControllers #reagan #UnionBusting #PhelpsDodge #Hormel #solidarity #StrikeWave

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1981, #RonaldReagan broke #PATCO, the air traffic controllers union, firing over 11k striking workers. This move weakened #union power in a lasting way, as seen in #JoeBiden's attack on the #railroad unions. Workers must be allowed to #strike when needed!

Today in Labor History August 3, 1981: U.S. federal air traffic controllers began a nationwide strike after their union, PATCO, rejected the government's final contract offer. Most of the 13,000 strikers ignored orders to go back to work and were fired on August 5 by President Reagan for participating in an illegal work stoppage. Reagan's action, and the inability of the labor movement to respond to the crisis, led to the rapid downhill spiral of union power and membership. For example, in the years immediately after the PACTO strike, other major employers chose to fire striking workers and replace them with scabs (e.g., Phelps Dodge, 1983; Hormel, 1985-1986; and International Paper, 1987). In 1970, there were 380 major strikes. In 1999, there were only 17. And in 2010, there were only 11. However, there was a 50% increase in workers going on strike between 2021 and 2022. And nearly double the number of workers have already gone on strike in 2023 compared with 2022, with 5 more months to go.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #union #patco #reagan #UnionBusting #StrikeWave

As SAG-AFTRA joins the WGA on strike, I’d like to raise a giant middle finger and wish a very fuck you to Ronald Reagan, who is still dead.

#SAGAFTRAStrike #WGAStrike #PATCO

Rail and Track Infrastructure Replacements Cause PATCO Schedule Adjustments http://dlvr.it/Ss2lqb #BreakingNews #passengerrail #PATCO

Everyday that I exit the #PATCO AT #WalterRand, I get so mad when I see that the western #headhouse is closed. It's been closed for the entire decade I've lived here. Why? Nothing seems structurally wrong, just trying to enforce a police cordon that never went away. It's just #hostilearchitecture.