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Overview
This book analyses the rhetorical background and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and those of Ronald Reagan in reference to the 1981 strike. Was firing 11,000 federal employees the only option, or the best option available? The work examines the applicable federal statute, which provided and encouraged more leeway than the administration exercised; the stormy relations between the controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration; and the development of the rhetorical persona of Ronald Reagan, a persona favoring epideictic over deliberative rhetoric.(Ph.D. dissertation,University of Pittsburgh, 1993; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)
Synopsis
Presents a detailed chronicle of the 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike, drawing heavily on a review of other accounts, documents, reports, and more general works on labor. Overviews issues related to public sector collective bargaining, then describes the backgrounds and aims of the Federal Aviation Administration and PATCO. Discusses issues surrounding statute and statutory discretion, and examines elements in Reagan's personal and professional life and political career that led him to deny federal workers the right to strike. Includes descriptive chapter summaries. Author credentials are not given. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR