Question

This union's president Robert E. Poli disobeyed a federal court injunction and subsequently resigned after a 1981 strike. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this defunct union whose members were given a lifetime federal service ban lifted by Clinton, leading Drew Lewis to find replacements. Over 11,000 members of this union were fired by Reagan for ignoring orders.
ANSWER: PATCO [or Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]
[10h] The PATCO Strike inspired a company named for Anson Phelps and a man with this surname to hire replacements instead of negotiating with strikers. A family with this surname won a lawsuit that upheld the principle of “shareholder primacy.”
ANSWER: Dodge
[10e] This other union backed PATCO and the Air Line Pilots Association in refusing to support Jimmy Carter. This union, which was removed from the AFL-CIO in 1958, was founded in 1903 to assist truck drivers.
ANSWER: Teamsters union [or International Brotherhood of Teamsters; or IBT; or International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America]
<Noah Sheidlower, American History>

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