Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)

PATCO
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

Founded	1968
Dissolved	1981
Location	United States
Members	13,000

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The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.