Had excellent session yesterday with David Weil at Boston University, who took us through a case study looking at the PATCO dispute with the Reagan government in the early 80's, which ended in some 12,000 air traffic controllers being sacked.

Also had a session with Richard Freeman, who I know from work we've done on the unionreps web-site in the UK (he spends about half of his time in the UK, working with the LSE).

After a few days of freezing temperatures, Boston is expecting a mini heatwave today (all the way up into the 60's), before it turns cold again for the weekend!