Originally Posted by
Outsider
The PATCO guys were government employees and their strike was actually in violation of Federal Law.
They even used the document they were each forced to sign as a condition of employment that stated they understood it was against the law for them to strike.
100% true. In fact this is HR day 1 today and you have to be sworn in(!) as agreeing to the terms too. I know because I signed it and left the profession to be a pilot. What I was smoking when I quit, I still don't remember and it keeps getting through the drug tests.