On this day, 5 August 1981, after just two days on strike, 11,345 federal air traffic controllers were sacked by US President Reagan (himself a former union leader) for refusing his order to return to work. The workers were banned from federal service for life (lifted over a decade later), their union was legally dissolved later in October, and military air traffic controllers were used as replacements until new hires could be trained.
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Reagan was a shitty person.
