1/This is NOT, repeat, not, an Onion tweet. Reagan was a vehemently anti-Labor President.
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2/Reagan's war on labor culminated in the summer of 1981, when he fired 13,000 striking air traffic controllers and destroyed their union.
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3/Yes, he had been president of the Screen Actors Guild, but he was notoriously pro-management,
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4/The contract that Reagan made with the studios is still known in Hollywood as "The Great Giveaway,"
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5/because it so greatly benefited Lew Wasserman's giant agency/production company, MCA.
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6/which is where Reagan headed after he resigned from SAG, becoming a partner in a joint production venture with MCA
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7/In 1962, the Justice Department filed a federal antitrust suit against MCA, and SAG was charged as a coconspirator.
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8/MCA was broken up, after which Reagan, a lifelong Democrat, became an anti-big government Republican.
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Burn your fucking hall of fame to the ground your fucking union busters
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good grammar as always, brett banditelli.
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It was a rage mistake. We get it.
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haha thanks appreciate it i had the shakes writing that tweet thats how made i was.
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This is pretty despicable
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Considering that he later abolished the Air Traffic Controllers Union.
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how ironic that one of the greatest enemies of labor will be in a labor hall of honor
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Only in America
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in the same spirit i am adding him to the hall of fame for presidents who didnt illegally sell weapons to iran
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