American Labor

Week of Apr. 6, 1970
American labor, reacting to ravaging inflation, organizes huge and crippling strikes. Federal employees, for whom a strike option is illegal, display particular militancy. No sooner do postal employees get the mail moving again, than federally employed air-traffic controllers walk out, causing hundreds of delays and cancellations.

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