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Union Gains in Airline Industry Seen As Symptomatic of Labor Resurgence

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 7/29/19

After years of decline in the American union movement, there is evidence of a revival within the transportation sector, particularly at the airlines.

The turnabout is notable because it’s widely believed that it was President Ronald Reagan’s mass firing of striking Air Traffic Controllers in 1981 that helped accelerate labor’s diminishing influence.

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