09/03/2020
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In 1981, 11,345 air traffic controllers stood in solidarity on the picket line, defying President Ronald Reagan’s order to return to work. He fired them en masse. The era of corporate strikebreaking and declining union power that followed paved the way for modern America’s unprecedented inequality and job insecurity. The Last Strike is a feature documentary that uses a wealth of long-buried materials and unique green-screen interview techniques to take the viewer, beat by beat, inside the PATCO strike that changed everything, unraveling the mystery behind who tried to crush the American labor movement.
The true story of the '81 PATCO strike when Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 Air Traffic Controllers, changing the American workplace forever