{"id":275909,"date":"2021-08-15T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=190582"},"modified":"2021-08-15T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:59:00","slug":"patco-strike-reflections-on-an-ominous-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/15\/patco-strike-reflections-on-an-ominous-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"PATCO Strike: Reflections On An Ominous Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the 40th\u00a0anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan. If the strikers did not return to work within 48 hours, he\u00a0announced, they would be \u201cterminated,\u201d fired and permanently replaced.\u00a0The vast majority of strikers defied his order, and at 11 AM, Eastern time, on the morning of August 5, they were fired.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/patco-strike-reflections-on-an-ominous-anniversary\/\">PATCO Strike: Reflections On An Ominous Anniversary<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/patco-strike-reflections-on-an-ominous-anniversary\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the 40th\u00a0anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan. If the strikers did not return to work within 48 hours, he\u00a0announced, they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,33666,35,3309,6162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275947,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275909\/revisions\/275947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}