Skeptic Project

Did President Ronald Reagan have to fire the air traffic controllers and break up their Union PATCO IN 1981 Im asking this question because some Right Wingers say the air traffic controllers had no legal right to strike and that they signed contracts saying they would not strike and that air traffic controllers going on strike was unsafe also is it true that Reagan was a member and President of a Union the Screen Actors Guild he was also a lifetime member of the Afl-Cio Union did he just do all this just for Union member votes what is truth about Reagan's views on Unions I only want the truth ?

Labor - And A Whole Lot More

Ronald Reagan's War on Labor

http://www.dickmeister.com/id89.html Remarks and Q & A with reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) strike

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President Reagan's remarks and Q & A session with reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) strike on 8/3/81.

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President Reagan addressed a meeting of AFL-CIO members. It was while leaving this speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel that President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. on the sidewalk outside the hotel. The president was taken to George Washington University Hospital, had surgery, and subsequently recovered and resumed his duties as president. Three others were shot by Hinckley at the same time, including White House press secretary James Brady. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/88286-1</p>

Ronald Reagan opposed workers' rights.
Some of Reagan's pre-1980 anti-worker rights actions are described in a 2004 interview with Frances Fox Piven, professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Dolores Huerta, one of the founders of the United Farm Workers. While Governor of California from 1967-1975, Ronald Reagan opposed the efforts of the United Farm Workers to improve working conditions and wages for vulnerable migrant agricultural laborers. He famously ate grapes – then under boycott by the UFW – on television, to show his support for the farmers and his scorn for the workers' cause. He also vetoed the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, a law that sought to give farm workers the right to unionize. The CALRA was signed into law in 1975 by Jerry Brown, Reagan's successor in the California Governor's office.

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Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

From the 1961 Operation Coffee Cup Campaign against Socialized Medicine as proposed by the Democrats, then a private citizen Ronald Reagan Speaks out against socialized medicine. There is no video because this was an LP sent out by the American Medical Association

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