re: 36th anniversary of Ronald Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers

"Sorry for the hijack but that reminds me of a topic I think we need to discuss. Pay has not kept up with inflation in a lot of places. A job that paid 50k in the 80s doesn't usually pay 135 k today."


You can thank Ronald Reagan AND labor for this fiasco. Had labor did the right thing, which would have been a complete and total shut down of all work by union employees nationwide Reagan would have blinked but, in typical company union fashion labor leaders of the day told their membership to stand down lest they suffer and for the last 30 or so years have just about lost everything they fought for.