Flashback: What Reagan did to the ATC bunch.
But air traffic controllers are essential.
I'm kind of up in the air about that one. It sure is a high stress high tech job with lots of people depending on you to "always" make the right decisions. One thing for sure it put a whole lot onto the supervisors trying to do all that work while new people were being trained. Sort of odd since President Reagan was once the chief of the actors guild union.
Think if he were still President he'd fire hollyweird?