Support PATCO strike!
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-08-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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the that On THE REFUSAL of air traffic controllers in Britain and other countries to support their striking colleagues in the USA has delighted the cynical union-busters in the Reagan administration.
It means that their frontal attack on the US air traffic control union PATCO - in which they have sacked all 12,000 PATCO strikers, fined and jailed union leaders and paraded them in chains - has survived its first hurdle.
So far the skeleton crew of scabs, non-union controllers military personnel has managed to keep a large percentage of flights in the air without a major disaster - though near misses are being reported by the dozen.
Safety
As long as they do mealy-mouthed exi action is called! grounds afe rather than in defence trade union solidar becomes less credible.
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Blacking
And in Britain trollers have cont throughout to guide s flights into and out of air space. Only the Por guese controllers offered a show of solida - with a 48 hour sp blacking.
Action is needed urg ly. Within the IPCS, c have been raised for supp to PATCO. Other unionists must insist that British labour MONE supports its Amer brothers and *Black al
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Socialist Organiser, Thursday 20 August, 1981 Page 2.