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In 1981, President Ronald Regan fired striking air traffic controllers and kept air traffic going with replacement controllers. Since then the practice of replacing striking workers with replacement workers has been used on several occasions. What is your position on this practice? Are you for or against the practice?

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Due to the essential functions that air traffic controllers perform, it is pertinent that replacement workers are to be used when air-traffic controllers are striking, and the striking air traffic controllers should not necessarily be fired. In essence, I am in total agreement with the need to replace air traffic controllers with replacement workers, in order to ensure that the nation's ...

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