tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post4731305899634495491..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: I hear the music all the timeAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-43718903237438118902020-01-13T23:28:13.418+00:002020-01-13T23:28:13.418+00:00You seldom hear this, but the rationale for that s...You seldom hear this, but the rationale for that strike was not higher wages or better benefits. The union cited safety concerns due to overworked air-traffic controllers. Since it is a notoriously stressful occupation, this seemed plausible to me under the Reagan regime of government cutbacks.paintedjaguarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12543155841059132978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-3537230386854331062020-01-10T19:39:59.651+00:002020-01-10T19:39:59.651+00:00re: Michael Moore link
In the early '90s some...re: Michael Moore link<br /><br />In the early '90s something changed and PATCO strikers became eligible for reemployment. As a resume writer, I worked with a fired PATCO striker. Thanks to cutbacks, his job as an air traffic controller in 1981 was more difficult than the work he did as an air traffic controller at Tan Son Nhut air base at the peak of the Vietnam war and which was at that time was also the busiest airport in the world on top of being in a war zone.<br /><br />We shit all over those strikers almost all of whom were Vietnam veterans. I still get mad about it.Mark Gislesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264508885194574116noreply@blogger.com