ILRLR 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968), United States Senate Select Committee On Improper Activities In Labor And Management, Left-Wing Politics
27 Jun 2016
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Decline of industrial unions and rise of rights-based liberalism: Mcclellan committee: examines widespread union corruption by senate. Landrum-griffin: protects union members from corrupt leadership. March on washington for jobs and freedom, 1963. American federation of state, county, and municipal employees (afscme) Contradiction: raising wages in government = higher taxes. Negotiating contracts for better hours and higher pay - faa and fed. eventually agree; demanded an additional 17x after signing agreement. 13k of 17. 5k go on strike on 8/3. Violates taft-hartley law which bans strikes by federal employees (but other strikes had gone unpunished) Says president can step in and issue an injunction. Reagan invoked a law banning government strikes. Threatens to fire strikers - 1. 5k return to work. Work-stoppages involving 1,000+ workers for at least one shift after patco dropped massively. The state sided with capital for the first time since the new deal. Passage of the civil rights act of 1964: creation of title vii.
