re: #161 William Barnett-Lewis

Reagan wasn’t a union hater, he wasn’t. Thatcher was, but to be fair in Britain the unions had behaved far worse than occurred within the US at the same time.

It’s a shame you weren’t here last week when the subject of the 1981 PATCO strike came up. Because what I’ve learned about that turning point between Ronald Reagan and organized labor was that the strike was really more PATCO’s Tragedy (in the Greek sense) than it was about Reagan. But after Reagan fired those air traffic controllers who would not return to work (in my judgement the ‘least-worst’ of three bad options Reagan had to choose from), there was an un-closeable breech between the Reagan Administration and organized labor.