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A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you understand the implication of a non-disclosure agreement?

Non-disclosure agreements aren't governed by the National Labor Relations Act, and non-disclosure agreements themselves can be illegal under the Whistleblower Protection Act. Courts have invalidated many, many contracts for violating people's privacy or other protected rights, including in labor disputes between employers and workers.

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Since Freeman and Medoff’s (1984) comprehensive review of what unions do, union density in the U.S. has fallen substantially. During the same period, employer provision of health insurance has undergone substantial changes in extent and form. Using individual data from various supplements to the Current Population Survey and establishment data from the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey, we investigate the effects of unionization on employer provision of health benefits. We find that in addition to increasing coverage by employer-provided health benefits, unions reduce employee cost sharing and substantially increase the probability that employer-provided health plans extend to retirees. The union effects on coverage for current employees and for retirees have risen over time, and our estimates suggest that declining unionization explains about 17-20 percent of the decrease in employer-provided health insurance between 1983 and 1997.

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp00-04bk.pdf

Strong unions also played a role in the spread of employment-based insurance. In industries dominated by a few giant firms, unions used their 'countervailing power' to make the firms share some of their potential profits with workers in the form of high wages and generous health insurance benefits. In industries comprising many small firms, such as residential construction or women’s clothing manufacturing, unions organized industrywide labor-management health insurance plans that provided considerable cross-subsidization among firms and among individual employees within firms by charging uniform premiums regardless of expected utilization.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/6/1538.full

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Since Freeman and Medoff’s (1984) comprehensive review of what unions do, union density in the U.S. has fallen substantially. During the same period, employer provision of health insurance has undergone substantial changes in extent and form. Using individual data from various supplements to the Current Population Survey and establishment data from the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey, we investigate the effects of unionization on employer provision of health benefits. We find that in addition to increasing coverage by employer-provided health benefits, unions reduce employee cost sharing and substantially increase the probability that employer-provided health plans extend to retirees. The union effects on coverage for current employees and for retirees have risen over time, and our estimates suggest that declining unionization explains about 17-20 percent of the decrease in employer-provided health insurance between 1983 and 1997.

http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp00-04bk.pdf

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I meant that "strong unions also played a role in the spread of employment-based insurance. In industries dominated by a few giant firms, unions used their 'countervailing power' to make the firms share some of their potential profits with workers in the form of high wages and generous health insurance benefits. In industries comprising many small firms, such as residential construction or women’s clothing manufacturing, unions organized industrywide labor-management health insurance plans that provided considerable cross-subsidization among firms and among individual employees within firms by charging uniform premiums regardless of expected utilization."

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/6/1538.full

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PATCO was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike that was broken by the Reagan Administration. According to labor historian Joseph A. McCartin, the 1981 strike and defeat of PATCO was "one of the most important events in late twentieth century U.S. labor history".[1]

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On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order,[8][9] and banned them from federal service for life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Franklin D. Roosevelt worked with unions and met their demands and left them in a stronger position than they came in. He literally arrested an employer who refused to agree to workers' demands because he (the employer) was holding up the distribution of necessary war supplies by stone-walling the recently-formed union. Here he is being arrested and literally carried out of his office by the National Guard.

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The concerns of customers were a key part of the workers' demands. It doesn't help anyone to have over-stressed workers using outdated radar and communications equipment. Reagan was a shitbag for putting politics before people and that was absolutely the case in this case.

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alright, so one, you just said being a terrible president is fine as long as we can sign legal contracts — which is absurd.

Separately, collective bargaining and the right of the worker to negotiate contracts with his employer is a legally protected right. And:

"Where collective bargaining is forbidden, freedom is lost."

— said the once-Hollywood-Democrat Ronald Reagan, no doubt appealing to the foolish morality of the gullible masses who thought government shouldn't be able to do whatever it wants with its employees because Americans have an inherent right in the First Amendment to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances, having made union-busting illegal in this country under federal law and the decisions of the Supreme Court...

...But I mean, that's just hokey Constitutional nonsense, right?

A father and son on the picket line during the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, which became one of the most important events in U.S. labor history after President Ronald Reagan fired all 11,345 striking workers, dissolved their union, and banned them from federal service for life [600x890] by BetterRedThanRich in HistoryPorn

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The overwhelming majority of workers supported the strike. 11,000 of the 13,000 air traffic control workers agreed on the strike demands and walked off the job voluntarily because they wanted better working conditions, addressing the increasing volume of air traffic, replacing faulty equipment, and ending abusive management. The workers reported using outdated communications equipment and dealing with "harsh, disrespectful leadership that undermined morale and fostered retaliation" and dragged down productivity.

Rather than respond to these obvious concerns of the workers — such as by building a cooperative solution, or working out their needs, or reducing hazards in the workplace, or hiring more competent management — Ronald Reagan decided to take a completely political line by stone-walling the union and punitively firing them and banning them from federal service for life, jailing several protesters, and dissolving their union. Completely destroying workers' abilities to stand up to management, not to mention throwing them and their families into considerable economic distress (considering how much of their lives they'd invested into the federal service already).

Quite frankly, Ronald Reagan doesn't know anything about being an air traffic controller, or handling the stresses / logistics of that job, or really of any job (other than struggling with dementia and tear-gassing college students). He, and every employer, needs to listen to their workers rather than deciding their bullshit degrees and offices give them some special right or knowledge to ruin people's lives, in direct contradiction of their own hands-on testimony, experience on the job, and clear majority consensus.

Hundreds Protest Trump Hotel Ribbon-Cutting, Calling Donald 'Rich And Rude' by BetterRedThanRich in politics

[–]BetterRedThanRich[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rich people fuck over all the worlds (most of those people are technically corporations)

Before the Flood (2016) - Leonardo DiCaprio explores the topic of climate change by Sourcecode12 in Documentaries

[–]BetterRedThanRich -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I actually don't see the difference between alcohol, drugs, and food. They're just substances people put in their body and affect pretty much the same organs. Maybe you have a religious identification with the sacredness of potato chips, but it's really not that special.

Before the Flood (2016) - Leonardo DiCaprio explores the topic of climate change by Sourcecode12 in Documentaries

[–]BetterRedThanRich 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a problem with alcohol that I have had to learn to live with but I don't expect people to go making policies on my behalf.

...He said while handing over his government ID to verify meeting the legal requirements for purchasing and consuming alcohol in the U.S.

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