Originally Posted by
Pilot7576
PATCO strike was illegal...that is why the striking controllers got fired.
JTF
In addition, the PATCO strike was privately opposed by the AFL-CIO leadership, who foresaw (and warned Robert Poli), that it would fail and cause great harm to Organized Labor as a whole. When he went ahead anyway, they were furious at him but had to make a pro-forma denunciation of the firings as "overkill".
