“Sanitation workers on strike; at Atlanta City Hall a protester is dragged away, Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 1977.” Photo by Billy Downs. AJCP309-021L, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. Copyright Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy Georgia State University.

Today in #LaborHistory 3/28/1977: #AFSCME #union sanitation workers #strike in #Atlanta, #Georgia. Mayor Jackson, seen by many as a #CivilRights leader, fired >900 workers & crushed the strike, setting stage for #Reagan mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during #PATCO strike, 1981.

For all you who think the #Metrocard entered service in 1994, you're you might be surprised that it's from factor first appeared on #PATCO in 1969

Here's to the engineers at #CubicCorp and their card's 56 years of service. 🫡

@milesintransit.com
@jeremyzorek.bsky.social
@alanthefisher.bsky.social

Starbucks is my one vice but I don't cross a picket line. Solidarity from a #PATCO strike kid 💖

The FAA said they didn't care what PATCO had to say that's why #PATCO made sure they understood

What's this short piece and learn all about what broke air travel under #Reagan. This is a powerful lesson and it may very well be the #fafo moment for this Administration.

#PATCO WON

This happened in 1981 under Ronald #Reagan and it made #America come to a halt. I will never forget it.

#PATCO FIRED, was the headline in news stories everywhere.

Imagine these people working for nothing which is exactly what's going on right now. record profits being made; but not shared

#wages

First thing that should happen is the military including af 1 af 2 and whatever should be Banned from using the airspace during this shutdown.
Say this's for safety reasons because quite honestly it is.

FYI America 1981 #REAGAN fired the #PATCO 11000 members, in the Rose Garden LOL

Whats New?

We Stopped Paying Air Traffic Controllers: 1981 Already Told Us What Happens Next A System on Pause

We Stopped Paying Air Traffic Controllers: 1981 Already Told Us What Happens Next open.substack.com/pub/slmurphr...
#AirTrafficControllers #GovernmentShutdown #FAA #LaborCrisis #AviationNews #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #InfrastructureCrisis #PATCO #AirTravel

PATCO strike, with workers holding a large banner that reads: “Support the PATCO strikers. Stop Reagan’s union busting. Source: Georgia State University Library PATCO archives

Today in #LaborHistory 10/20/1980: Pres candidate Ronald #Reagan promised #PATCO #union concessions if they endorsed him. 1st months as #POTUS, he fired them all. The mass firing & inability of labor movement to successfully respond, led to rapid downhill spiral of union power and membership.

L'édito politique du mardi 07 octobre 2025

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Sévère mais juste #Patco

Then came the #Patco firings to bend the air tower union first, then the inflation monster still crushing americans.

Then the ballooning of the debt.

He was the oldest Prez ever elected at the time at 69 yrs.

He also had the biggest of Iran contra skullduggery where the kiboshed several admin 👇

Letters to the Editor | Aug. 13, 2025 Inquirer readers on the federal takeover of Washington D.C.'s police force and how SEPTA service cuts would affect passengers from the Garden State.

Great op-ed from our own Bill Ritzler on how @septaphilly.bsky.social service cuts could negatively impact New Jersey. #PATCO #NJTransit #RiverLINE #DRPA

August 5, 1981 - President Ronald Reagan, having ordered striking air traffic controllers back to work within 48 hours, fired 11,359 (more than 70%) who ignored the order, and permanently banned them from federal service (a ban later lifted by President Bill Clinton).

August 5, 1981 - President Ronald Reagan, having ordered striking air traffic controllers back to work within 48 hours, fired 11,359 (more than 70%) who ignored the order, and permanently banned them from federal service (a ban later lifted by President Bill Clinton).
#PATCO #UnionBusterReagan
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Time's up. Either you have the Flick or you don't. And then there are the 7UPs. Never had it, never will.

This is a day that should be known by every worker in America. It is *not* simple. It is *not* straightforward.

But the results are. It was a bad day for American workers. #PATCO #NATCA

Houston we have lots of aviation problems happening. Deregulation should never compromise safety conditions. #PATCO thank Ronald Reagan & his Corrupt GOP.

I haven't flown since the 1981 PATCO strike. I, for sure, would not fly now! #patco #faa

You can thank Ronald Reagan for all of this crap. #PATCO

🚇💤 PATCO’s new overnight service cuts are raising eyebrows—and real concerns.

Starting now, weekday trains between 12:01 AM and 4:30 AM will be reduced, then fully suspended starting Sept. 1.

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#JerseyOddcast #LocalNewsWithATwist #OddballNation #PATCO

photo of a train on a bridge; only one car of the train is in frame, the sky above is light blue, the frame cuts off at the bottom of the tracks

the train going anywhere
may '25
📷: canon rebel xs
🎞: kodak gold 200

#patco #locomotive #philadelphia #train #35mm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shotonfilm #analogphotography

WATCH: Today's TCS Public Transit Committee monthly meeting featuring a deep dive on South Jersey's transit priorities including #GCL #MicroTransit #NJTransit bus service, #PATCO and more.

All this Air Traffic Controller BS is giving me PTSD. Maybe the general public should have listened to us back in the late 1970’s and early 80’s instead of the Ronald Reagan/Drew Lewis “wrecking ball”(sound familiar?) disinformation machine.
(look It up).

Just sayin…
#FAA #ATC #PATCO

For my entire 25-year career with the FAA, managers and every administration thought they could replace air traffic controllers with technology. They failed. Every single time. For my 25 years. And now, almost 20 more years on top of that.

Nothing will fix this but more controllers #PATCO #NATCA

Philly bound @Haddonfield NJ #PATCO

My brother was an air traffic controller in 1981 when PATCO went on strike.
They weren’t demanding perks—they were sounding the alarm.
The system was already failing.
When radar cut out, he tracked planes by hand—with slips of paper. In his pocket.
#PATCO #CollapseWatch

Standing on an elevated train platform looking out at trees, sky and a parking lot with solar panels. Yellowish fluorescent lights and conduits on the canopy above the platform.

#patco #ridepatco #ashlandstation #cherryhill #voorhees #solarpanels #trainstation #mextures #nj
October 13, 2024

PATCO viaduct, Westmont train station and parking lot. Photo has a darkened foreground, gloomy cloudy sky with narrow band of orange sunlight close to the horizon in the distance.

#patco #westmont #westmontstation #sunset #mextures #trainstation
October 1, 2022

Standing on Haddonfield PATCO Station platform and looking up at the station and dark sky above. Black and white photo.

#haddonfieldstation #patco #highspeedline #mextures #train #nj #haddonfield #winter #snow #trains
September 3, 2018

Standing on Haddonfield PATCO Station platform and looking up at the station and dark sky above

#PATCO #haddonfieldnj #haddonfield #train #highspeedline #winter #snow #nj #trains
September 2, 2018

PATCO train, 1st car, sitting at an elevated train station with an enhanced orange sky background

#PATCO #ridepatco #westmontstation #westmont #disabledtrain #trains #nj
September 1, 2017