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PATCO

The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), a labor union representing civilian air traffic controllers employed by an agency  the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)  of the United States (US) government, called a strike on 3 August 1981 (Office of AFCC History [OOAFCCH], 1985). In the ensuing months, PATCO's effectiveness as a collective bargaining organization was destroyed, the lives of hundreds of air traffic controllers and their families were quickly characterized by high levels of uncertainty and distress, air traffic safety in the US was temporarily compromised, military personnel were used as temporary replacements for the civilian air traffic controllers, and the quality of the industrial relations environment in the country deteriorated (Bowers, 1983). These outcomes were related; however, the relationships were not necessarily causal in each instance.

Important questions are associated with the air traffic controllers strike, the government's response, and the strike outcomes. These questions are related to the powers of labor and management with respect to the content and process of work in the public sector, the right to strike of public sector employees, dispute settlement mechanisms employed in public administration, the use of military personnel to replace striking civilian workers, and implications for air traffic safety  both in the shortterm and in the longterm  of the strike, governmental responses, and strike outcomes. The specific questions addressed through the research performed for this study are the following:

1. What were the central issues leading to the air traffic controllers strike in 1981?

2. Have the central issues which led to the air traffic controllers strike in 1981 been effectively addressed in the intervening years?

3. Was the way the air traffic controllers strike was addressed by the Reagan Administration and the FAA in the ...

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PATCO. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 03:46, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1687442.html