Comment on Unions work.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Professional Air Traffic Controllers union [aka PATCO] was one of the few Unions that supported Ronald Reagan in 1980.
They went on strike after he took office, and he fired them all, and made sure they would never work again. The country was so desperate for controllers that they were hiring people with GEDs to take the training.
Reagan hated Unions, which was funny because he boasted of being a Union President [Screen Actors Guild.] While in that job, he helped the FBI spy on his membership.
CaptFeather@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I love how every new thing I learn about Reagan just further cements him as a complete total piece of shit lol
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lauren Hutton was a model/actress back in the 1970s. I once watched her on a talk show and she had an interesting take on Reagan. He was the long time host of a TV Western show sponsored by General Electric. Every week he’d do a commercial for GE refrigerators and every week America would see him standing next to an ice box full of food. Hutton pointed out that for people who’d lived through the Depression, that was a powerful image. Kind of like how Trump was sold as a genius businessman.