Sentence examples for controllers on strike from inspiring English sources

Air-traffic controllers on strike in Ronkonkoma, New York, in August , 1981

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Brian Lavery (NYT) FRANCE: AIR CONTROLLERS STRIKE French air traffic controllers went on strike to protest privatization, paralyzing flights in and out of France and affecting all of the country's airlines and airports.

And at the time, the controllers were on strike and interest rates were almost 19 percent, so no one was really getting mortgages.

In June, French air traffic controllers went on strike for the third time in two years to oppose the plan.

In summer 1981 PATCO, the union of federal air traffic controllers went on strike, violating a federal law prohibiting government unions from striking.

Federal law prohibited federal employees like the controllers to strike.

Mr. Burnett was on the safety board when the air traffic control system struggled to cope after Reagan, in 1981, dismissed 11,000 controllers who had gone on strike.

President Reagan infuriated labor unions in 1981 when he dismissed thousands of air-traffic controllers who had gone on strike and then defied an order to return to work.

But just as he was set to go, President Bill Clinton offered the prime jobs to the more than 10,000 controllers who had gone on strike in 1981 and were subsequently fired by President Ronald Reagan.

But some pilots said that in its plans to close the towers, the F.A.A. was risking safety in a way that had not occurred since 1981, when the agency was forced to close towers because President Ronald Reagan fired thousands of air traffic controllers who had gone on strike.