There is no comparison because the underlying principles are completely different.
Reagan did not fire the ATCs because of compensation disagreements. He fired them because THEY BROKE THEIR OATH and because of that they needed to be fired without any other consideration.
Reagan did not declare a state of emergency that would prevent an election.
If Reagan had done this to any other union that had taken an oath and then broken it, then a firing would have had the same consideration.
The ***only thing*** in common with Spain is that it has to do with air traffic controllers and nothing else.
That PATCO is still whining after all these years about Reagan shows they haven’t learned their lesson:
When you take an oath to the United States of America, you don’t break it ever.
Oh, BS.
Comparison can be between wildly different things...but these are not terribly different.
Two leaders reacted to similar situations in similar ways, what is hard to understand about that?
Zapatero considered the controllers actions illegal....so did Reagan.
Zapatero canned the controllers....so did Reagan.
Zapatero put them under military....Reagan was close to doing that.
Looks comparable to me.