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Many air traffic controllers were later reinstated, but only one by one: they signed individual contracts requiring them to give up significant economic privileges, and above all, the right to stop work at will. This would send a strong signal to social relations and the American economy: no corporation could ever again jeopardize the collective interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan, upon taking office, signed a collective dismissal letter and 11,359 individual dismissals for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>August 3, 1981 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/august-3-1981\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"August 3, 1981 - 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