09-15-2022, 01:15 PM
(09-15-2022, 04:57 AM)cannongal Wrote:(09-15-2022, 04:35 AM)Duchess Wrote:(09-15-2022, 03:01 AM)cannongal Wrote: I don't see how Congress can force people to work.
Do you think the strike will happen?
I don't know how either, but didn't Reagan make air traffic controllers work back in the day?
I don't know if a strike will happen. I really don't know much of anything about this.
Actually, Reagan fired over 11,000 air traffic controllers, and brought in the military as a temporary replacement. Air traffic controllers are considered federal employees, so Reagan had the right to do that.
Legality doesn't equate to morality. Air traffic control was a mess at that time due to mismanagement and incompetence. Instead of addressing that Reagan made it a labor issue, which exemplified an absence of leadership. He was just another shit-sucking politician in my book.