Public historian Philip Dray puts the Wisconsin union battles in a historical context on today’s show: “Presidents historically had been somewhat hostile to unions but no one had ever decimated a union completely like that. What Reagan accomplished in response to the air traffic controllers’ picketing was to end the taboo associated with crossing a picket line.”
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