레이건 대통령, 不法파업한 관제사 1만1000명을 파면! / 48시간의 복귀 時限 준 뒤 단행. 파면자의 再고용도 영구적으로 금지시켰다.

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레이건 대통령, 不法파업한 관제사 1만1000명을 파면!

48시간의 복귀 時限 준 뒤 단행. 파면자의 再고용도 영구적으로 금지시켰다.

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 11만5000명이 소속된 공무원 통합 노조가 駐韓미군 철수-보안법 폐지 등을 주장하고 죽창폭동을 일삼는 민노총에 가입하기로 결의한 것은 공무원들의 정치적 중립을 의무화한 헌법 위반행위임이 명백한 데도 李明博 정부는 무엇이 겁 나는지 犯法혐의자들에 대한 형사 고발, 손해 배상 소송, 파면 등의 法的 조치를 제대로 취하지 않고 있다. 이런 식으로 시간이 지나가면 민노총 가입은 기정사실로 되어 李明博 정부가 대한민국의 심장에 대못을 박는 결과를 부를 것이다.
 
 李 대통령은 한번도 이 사태에 대한 정부의 방침이나 법률적 해석을 밝히지 않아 국민들이 판단의 기준을 잡을 수가 없다. 공무원 약12만 명이 주한미군 철수를 요구하는 상습적 폭동단체의 산하로 들어간다는 것은 安保위기임에도 대통령은 한가하기만 하다. 공무원들을 잘 관리하여야 할 대통령이 자신의 무능으로 공무원의 세금을 대는 국민들에게 폐를 끼치고 있는 데도 사과 한 마디가 없다. 主權者에 대한 예의가 없다.
 
 미국의 레이건 대통령은 1981년 공항의 관제사들이 임금 인상을 요구하면서 不法파업에 들어가자 직접 기자회견에 나와 그 불법성을 명쾌하게 설명하고 "파업자들이 48시간 내에 복귀하지 않으면 전원 파면하겠다"고 선언하였다. 연방법원도 불법 파업 하루 당 100만 달러의 벌금을 노조에 물리겠다고 거들었다.
 
 레이건 대통령은 자신이 할리우드 배우 노조의 조합장으로서 파업을 지도한 적이 있다고 소개하면서 "그러나 법에 따라 공무원들은 파업을 할 수가 없다. 파업을 하지 않겠다고 서약을 하지 않았는가"라고 공격하였다.
 
 레이건 대통령은 代替 人力을 신속하게 투입하여 혼란을 수습하는 한편 선언한 대로 48시간의 時限이 지나도록 직장에 복귀하지 않은 1만1000명의 관제사를 파면하였다. 레이건 대통령은 이에 머물지 않았다. 그는 파면된 관제사들의 再고용을 영구적으로 금지시켰다.
 
 李明博 대통령은 헌법을 짓밟는 공무원들에 대하여 왜 레이건처럼 할 수 없는가? 不法행위에 대한 대통령의 침묵은 不法에 대한 동조로 해석될 것이다. 국군통수권자인 李明博 대통령이 민노총의 주한미군 철수 주장에 암묵적으로 동조하지 않는다면 이 사태에 대하여 절대로 침묵을 지킬 수가 없다.
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 Ronald Reagan's ultimatum to striking air traffic controllers
 
 Delivered August 3, 1981.
 
 
 
 
 Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike
 
 August 3, 1981
 
 The President. This morning at 7 a.m. the union representing those who man America's air traffic control facilities called a strike. This was the culmination of 7 months of negotiations between the Federal Aviation Administration and the union. At one point in these negotiations agreement was reached and signed by both sides, granting a $40 million increase in salaries and benefits. This is twice what other government employees can expect. It was granted in recognition of the difficulties inherent in the work these people perform. Now, however, the union demands are 17 times what had been agreed to —$681 million. This would impose a tax burden on their fellow citizens which is unacceptable.
 
 I would like to thank the supervisors and controllers who are on the job today, helping to get the nation's air system operating safely. In the New York area, for example, four supervisors were scheduled to report for work, and 17 additionally volunteered. At National Airport a traffic controller told a newsperson he had resigned from the union and reported to work because, "How can I ask my kids to obey the law if I don't?" This is a great tribute to America.
 
 Let me make one thing plain. I respect the right of workers in the private sector to strike. Indeed, as president of my own union, I led the first strike ever called by that union. I guess I'm maybe the first one to ever hold this office who is a lifetime member of an AFL - CIO union. But we cannot compare labor-management relations in the private sector with government. Government cannot close down the assembly line. It has to provide without interruption the protective services which are government's reason for being.
 
 It was in recognition of this that the Congress passed a law forbidding strikes by government employees against the public safety. Let me read the solemn oath taken by each of these employees, a sworn affidavit, when they accepted their jobs: "I am not participating in any strike against the Government of the United States or any agency thereof, and I will not so participate while an employee of the Government of the United States or any agency thereof."
 
 It is for this reason that I must tell those who fail to report for duty this morning they are in violation of the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated.
 
 Q. Mr. President, are you going to order any union members who violate the law to go to jail?
 
 The President. Well, I have some people around here, and maybe I should refer that question to the Attorney General.
 
 Q. Do you think that they should go to jail, Mr. President, anybody who violates this law?
 
 The President. I told you what I think should be done. They're terminated.
 
 The Attorney General. Well, as the President has said, striking under these circumstances constitutes a violation of the law, and we intend to initiate in appropriate cases criminal proceedings against those who have violated the law.
 
 Q. How quickly will you initiate criminal proceedings, Mr. Attorney General?
 
 The Attorney General. We will initiate those proceedings as soon as we can.
 
 Q. Today?
 
 The Attorney General. The process will be underway probably by noon today.
 
 Q. Are you going to try and fine the union $1 million per day?
 
 The Attorney General. Well, that's the prerogative of the court. In the event that any individuals are found guilty of contempt of a court order, the penalty for that, of course, is imposed by the court.
 
 Q. How much more is the government prepared to offer the union?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. We think we had a very satisfactory offer on the table. It's twice what other Government employees are going to get 󈟛.4 percent. Their demands were so unreasonable there was no spot to negotiate, when you're talking to somebody 17 times away from where you presently are. We do not plan to increase our offer to the union.
 
 Q. Under no circumstances?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. As far as I'm concerned, under no circumstance.
 
 Q. Will you continue to meet with them?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. We will not meet with the union as long as they're on strike. When they're off of strike, and assuming that they are not decertified, we will meet with the union and try to negotiate a satisfactory contract.
 
 Q. Do you have any idea how it's going at the airports around the country?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. Relatively, it's going quite well. We're operating somewhat in excess of 50 percent capacity. We could increase that. We have determined, until we feel we're in total control of the system, that we will not increase that. Also, as you probably know, we have some rather severe weather in the Midwest, and our first priority is safety.
 
 Q. What can you tell us about possible decertification of the union and impoundment of its strike funds?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. There has been a court action to impound the strike fund of $3.5 million. We are going before the National Labor Relations Authority this morning and ask for decertification of the union.
 
 Q. When you say that you're not going to increase your offer, are you referring to the original offer or the last offer which you've made? Is that still valid?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. The last offer we made in present value was exactly the same as the first offer. Mr. Poli (Robert Poli, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) asked me about 11 o'clock last evening if he could phase the increase in over a period of time. For that reason, we phased it in over a longer period of time. It would have given him a larger increase in terms of where he would be when the next negotiations started, but in present value it was the $40 million originally on the table.
 
 Q. Mr. Attorney General, in seeking criminal action against the union leaders, will you seek to put them in jail if they do not order these people back to work?
 
 The Attorney General. Well, we will seek whatever penalty is appropriate under the circumstances in each individual case.
 
 Q. Do you think that is an appropriate circumstance?
 
 The Attorney General. It is certainly one of the penalties that is provided for in the law, and in appropriate cases, we could very well seek that penalty.
 
 Q. What's appropriate?
 
 The Attorney General. Well, that depends upon the fact of each case.
 
 Q. What makes the difference?
 
 Q. Can I go back to my "fine" question? How much would you like to see the union fined every day?
 
 The Attorney General. Well, there's no way to answer that question. We would just have to wait until we get into court, see what the circumstances are, and determine what position we would take in the various cases under the facts as they develop.
 
 Q. But you won't go to court and ask the court for a specific amount?
 
 The Attorney General. Well, I'm sure we will when we reach that point, but there's no way to pick a figure now.
 
 Q. Mr. President, will you delay your trip to California or cancel it if the strike is still on later this week?
 
 The President. If any situation should arise that would require my presence here, naturally I will do that. So, that will be a decision that awaits what's going to happen. May I just —because I have to be back in there for another appointment —may I just say one thing on top of this? With all this talk of penalties and everything else, I hope that you'll emphasize, again, the possibility of termination, because I believe that there are a great many of those people —and they're fine people —who have been swept up in this and probably have not really considered the result —the fact that they had taken an oath, the fact that this is now in violation of the law, as that one supervisor referred to with regard to his children. And I am hoping that they will in a sense remove themselves from the lawbreaker situation by returning to their posts.
 
 I have no way to know whether this had been conveyed to them by their union leaders, who had been informed that this would be the result of a strike.
 
 Q. Your deadline is 7 o'clock Wednesday morning for them to return to work?
 
 The President. Forty-eight hours.
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. It's 11 o'clock Wednesday morning.
 
 Q. Mr. President, why have you taken such strong action as your first action? Why not some lesser action at this point?
 
 The President. What lesser action can there be? The law is very explicit. They are violating the law. And as I say, we called this to the attention of their leadership. Whether this was conveyed to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know. But this is one of the reasons why there can be no further negotiation while this situation continues. You can't sit and negotiate with a union that's in violation of the law.
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. And their oath.
 
 The President. And their oath.
 
 Q. Are you more likely to proceed in the criminal direction toward the leadership than the rank and file, Mr. President?
 
 The President. Well, that again is not for me to answer.
 
 Q. Mr. Secretary, what can you tell us about the possible use of military air controllers —how many, how quickly can they get on the job?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. In answer to the previous question, we will move both civil and criminal, probably more civil than criminal, and we now have papers in the U.S. attorneys offices, under the Attorney General, in about 20 locations around the country where would be involved two or three principal people.
 
 As far as the military personnel are concerned, they are going to fundamentally be backup to the supervisory personnel. We had 150 on the job, supposedly, about a half-hour ago. We're going to increase that to somewhere between 700 and 850.
 
 Q. Mr. Secretary, are you ready to hire other people should these other people not return?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. Yes, we will, and we hope we do not reach that point. Again as the President said, we're hoping these people come back to work. They do a fine job. If that does not take place, we have a training school, as you know. We will be advertising. We have a number of applicants right now. There's a waiting list in terms of people that want to be controllers, and we'll start retraining and reorganize the entire FAA traffic controller group.
 
 Q. Just to clarify, is your deadline 7 a.m. Wednedsay or 11 o'clock?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. It's 11 a.m. Wednesday. The President said 48 hours, and that would be 48 hours.
 
 Q. If you actually fire these people, won't it put your air traffic control system in a hole for years to come, since you can't just cook up a controller in —[inaudible]?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. That obviously depends on how many return to work. Right now we're able to operate the system. In some areas, we've been very gratified by the support we've received. In other areas, we've been disappointed. And until I see the numbers, there's no way I can answer that question.
 
 Q. Mr. Lewis, did you tell the union leadership when you were talking to them that their members would be fired if they went out on strike?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. I told Mr. Poli yesterday that the President gave me three instructions in terms of the firmness of the negotiations: one is there would be no amnestythe second there would be no negotiations during the strikeand third is that if they went on strike, these people would no longer be government employees.
 
 Q. Mr. Secretary, you said no negotiations. What about informal meetings of any kind with Mr. Poli?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. We will have no meetings until the strike is terminated with the union.
 
 Q. Have you served Poli at this point? Has he been served by the Attorney General?
 
 The Attorney General. In the civil action that was filed this morning, the service was made on the attorney for the union, and the court has determined that that was appropriate service on all of the officers of the union.
 
 Q. My previous question about whether you're going to take a harder line on the leadership than rank and file in terms of any criminal prosecution, can you give us an answer on that?
 
 The Attorney General. No, I can't answer that except to say that each case will be investigated on its own merits, and action will be taken as appropriate in each of those cases.
 
 Q. Mr. Lewis, do you know how many applications for controller jobs you have on file now?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. I do not know. I'm going to check when I get back. I am aware there's a waiting list, and I do not have the figure. If you care to have that, you can call our office, and we'll tell you. Also, we'll be advertising and recruiting people for this job if necessary.
 
 Q. Mr. Secretary, how long are you prepared to hold out if there's a partial but not complete strike?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. I think the President made it very clear that as of 48 hours from now, if the people are not back on the job, they will not be government employees at any time in the future.
 
 Q. How long are you prepared to run the air controller system —[inaudible]?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. For years, if we have to.
 
 Q. How long does it take to train a new controller, from the waiting list?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. It variesit depends on the type of center they're going to be in. For someone to start in the system and work through the more minor office types of control situations till they get to, let's say, a Chicago or a Washington National, it takes about 3 years. So in this case, what we'll have to do if some of the major metropolitan areas are shut down or a considerable portion is shut down, we'll be bringing people in from other areas that are qualified and then start bringing people through the training schools in the smaller cities and smaller airports.
 
 Q. Mr. Secretary, have you definitely made your final offer to the union?
 
 The Secretary of Transportation. Yes, we have.
 
 Q. Thank you.
 
 Note: The President read the statement to reporters at 10:55 a.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
 
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 Reagan fires 11,000 striking air traffic controllers Aug. 5, 1981
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 On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who ignored his order to return to work. The sweeping mass firing of federal employees slowed commercial air travel, but it did not cripple the system as the strikers had forecast.
 
 
 Two days earlier, nearly 13,000 controllers walked out after talks with the Federal Aviation Administration collapsed. As a result, some 7,000 flights across the country were canceled on that day at the peak of the summer travel season.
 
 
 Robert Poli, president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, sought an across-the-board annual wage increase of $10,000 for the controllers, whose pay ranged from $20,462 to $49,229 per year. He also sought a reduction of their five-day, 40-hour workweek to a four-day, 32-hour workweek. The FAA made a $40 million counteroffer, far short of the $770 million package that the union sought.
 
 
 Reagan branded the strike illegal. He threatened to fire any controller who failed to return to work within 48 hours. Federal judges levied fines of $1 million per day against the union.
 
 
 In 1955, Congress made such strikes punishable by fines or a one-year jail term —a law the Supreme Court upheld in 1971.
 
 
 To the chagrin of the strikers, the FAA’s contingency plans worked. Some 3,000 supervisors joined 2,000 nonstriking controllers and 900 military controllers in manning airport towers. Before long, about 80 percent of flights were operating normally. Air freight remained virtually unaffected.
 
 
 In carrying out his threat, Reagan also imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring the strikers. In October 1981, the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO.
 
 
 Source: www.stfrancis.edu/ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/btopics/works/atcstrike.htm 
 
 
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