Laws administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) govern the replacement of workers who go on strike, permitting the permanent replacement of workers only when an economic strike is called during contract negotiations. Most federal, state, and municipal unions in the United States are, by law, denied the right to strike, and the air traffic controllers’ strike was thus illegal. Ronald Reagan ordered the hiring of permanent replacement controllers. In the United States, this strike-breaking tactic was seldom used on a large scale before the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981, when Pres.
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