EUA – PARADA DO “LABOR DAY” EM NOVA IORQUE (SETEMBRO DE 1981)

Entre os sindicalistas, o mayor de Nova Iorque Ed Koch. Esta parada teve como motivo central a luta dos controladores aéreos e a resposta da administração Reagan. Alguns materiais existentes no ARQUIVO / BIBLIOTECA  tiveram origem nesta parada, incluindo um cartaz do PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization ) usado por um “homem sanduíche”.

Sobre esta parada escreveu  Joshua B. Freeman, Labor Day: From Protest to Picnics: “A New York City Labor Day parade in 1981 was the first to be held there for thirteen years. That year labor held parades in many cities to protest President Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers and, more broadly, to try to energize a movement suffering declining membership and a string of strike defeats. Some of the revived parades were massive: 200,000 marchers in New York in 1981...”