ABSTRACT

Almost all Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) seem to have labor issues from time to time and in some cases they can be quite contentious. The best known and most highly publicized example was the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) in the United States in 1981, which led to President Reagan firing the striking controllers. As discussed in Chapter 14, this strike and subsequent firing were simply the culmination of several years of increasingly contentious labor relations.