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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers, or PATCO, was a US Trade Union that operated from 1968 until 1981, which follwed an illegal strike that was broken by the Regan Administration.
On March 25, in 1970, the newly designated union orchestrated a "sickout" to protest many FAA actions that they felt were unfair. Over 2,000 controllers around the country did not report to work as scheduled and informed management that they were ill. They called in sick as a way to circumvent the federal law against strikes performed by government unions.
Management attempted to take on many of the duties of the missing people, but major traffic delays around the country occurred. On April 16th however, the federal courts intervened and most controllers went back to work by the order of the court and the government was forced to start bargaining.
The sickout eventually led officials to recognize that the ATC system was operating almost at capacity. To try and alleviate some of this, Congress accelerated the installation of automated systems and reopened the air traffic controller training academy in Oklahoma City. They also began hiring air traffic controllers at an increasing rate and raised salaries in an attempt to help attract and retain controllers.
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