Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez and...Ronald Reagan?

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced last week that former President Ronald Reagan will be entering the Labor Department’s Hall of Honor, joining legendary labor heroes ranging from Mother Jones to Eugene Debs and Cesar Chavez. Labor historian Joe McCartin and AFGE Local 12 president Alex Bastani will appear on today's edition of Your Rights at Work -- 1p on WPFW 89.3FM -- to explain why Reagan was in fact an enemy of organized labor throughout his presidency, starting with his firing of over 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981. “More than any other labor dispute of the past three decades," says McCartin, "Reagan’s confrontation with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, or Patco, undermined the bargaining power of American workers and their labor unions.”

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