Aviation Safety
Create a timeline of the annual activity of labor/management collective bargaining from 1978 through 2009, providing a short synopsis of mergers, new carriers and company departure from the air transportation sector. Highlight the areas of most importance.
1978 Jan, The Federal Hourly Minimum Wage was set at $2.65 an hour.
1978, Mar 6, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
1978, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
1981, Aug 3, U.S. air traffic controllers (PATCO) went on strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired. Most of the 13,000 controllers defied Reagan’s order to return to work within 48 hours and were fired.
1981, Aug 5, Pres. Reagan began firing 11,500 air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike 2 days earlier. 1981, Oct 22, The US Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1989, Mar 3, Machinists struck Eastern Airlines and pilots honored the picket lines.
1989, Mar 4, Eastern Airlines machinists went on strike and were joined by pilots and flight attendants.
1989, Mar 5, Machinists striking Eastern Airlines withdrew an immediate threat to picket the nation's railroads, after a federal judge issued an order temporarily prohibiting rail workers from honouring the Eastern picket lines.
1989, Nov 23, Pilots Union gave up on a sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines.
1998, Aug 28, Over
1978 Jan, The Federal Hourly Minimum Wage was set at $2.65 an hour.
1978, Mar 6, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
1978, Pres. Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley Act for an 80-day cooling off period in a coal strike. Miners had struck 3 months earlier after coal companies demanded wage and benefit cuts and refused to be forced back to work. They ended the strike after 110 days when most company demands were dropped.
1981, Aug 3, U.S. air traffic controllers (PATCO) went on strike, despite a warning from President Reagan they would be fired. Most of the 13,000 controllers defied Reagan’s order to return to work within 48 hours and were fired.
1981, Aug 5, Pres. Reagan began firing 11,500 air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike 2 days earlier. 1981, Oct 22, The US Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1989, Mar 3, Machinists struck Eastern Airlines and pilots honored the picket lines.
1989, Mar 4, Eastern Airlines machinists went on strike and were joined by pilots and flight attendants.
1989, Mar 5, Machinists striking Eastern Airlines withdrew an immediate threat to picket the nation's railroads, after a federal judge issued an order temporarily prohibiting rail workers from honouring the Eastern picket lines.
1989, Nov 23, Pilots Union gave up on a sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines.
1998, Aug 28, Over
References: History, T. o. (n.d.). Timelines of History. Retrieved from http://www.timelines.ws/ Kaps, R. W. (1997). The View Of The Unions. In R. W. Kaps, Air Transport Labor Relations (pp. 239-241). SIU Press.