In Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America, Why did PATCO members lose their st

Question

In Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America, Why did PATCO members lose their strike?

Answer 1

The Reagan administration used everything in its arsenal to teach PATCO--and every other union--a lesson. Militants were arrested, jailed and fined. Some PATCO members with federal mortgages lost their homes. Others were denied when they tried to adopt children.

The union was fined millions of dollars, and its $3.5 million strike fund was frozen. Eventually, the government succeeded in decertifying PATCO.

Read The Lessons of PATCO at the link.