The document provides background information on air traffic controllers and their unionization efforts over the 20th century. In 1981, 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike to demand better pay and benefits. However, President Ronald Reagan fired the striking workers and broke the union. This marked a major turning point that reduced workers' bargaining power and was one of the largest labor strikes in American history.

2. Air Traffic Control Strike 1981
BY:
Kastin Schaetzl

3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

4. History Of Air Controllers

5. 1903

6. 1910

7. 1920

8. Late 1920’s

9. 1929

10. 1930

11. 1935

12. Mid -1930

13. 1930 Cleveland Airport

14. World War II

15. 1950’s Radar Use

16. 1960

17. 1970

18. Professional Air traffic controller union

19. 1968 by F. Lee Bailey

20. 1955

21. March 25, 1970

22. Sickouts

23. Robert Poli

24. 1. He wanted an across-the-board annual wage
increase of $10,000 for the controllers, whose pay
ranged from $20,462 to $49,229 per year. He also
sought a reduction of their five-day, 40-hour
workweek to a four-day, 32-hour workweek. The
FAA made a $40 million counter offer, far less
than the $770 million that the union wanted.

25. THE STRIKE

26. 13,000 controllers

27. Ronald Reagan busted the Union

28. 11,000 workers fired

29. Others came to help

30. Impact of the Strike

31. Major Labor strike

32. Turning Point

33. Bargaining Power

34. PICTURES AND DEFINATIONS

35. A Union is an organized group of
workers who come together to make
decisions about the conditions of their
work.

37. The right to work is the concept that
people have a human right to work, or
engage in productive employment,
and may not be prevented from doing
so. People have a choice whether or
not they want to join a union