To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:36:09 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Odd events
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:55:44 -0500 Gayle Surrette
<davinci at chesapeake.net> writes:
> I agree with Ted on this.  I had friends who were ATC at the
> time and the strike wasn't really about wages though that was
> part of it. It was about safety...

I concede there is another side to the ATC story, and I'm aware that ATC
equipment infrastructure has been a long-running problem.  Call me
cynical, but I would think that PATCO was striking in their own interest,
as opposed to the public interest, knowing the strike would disrupt air
transportation and cause economic damage way out of scale with the stakes
at direct issue.  I would suppose that essential public employees such as
air traffic controllers would have to sign a no strike contract to obtain
employment in the first place.

Ron Kean

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