once elected they wanted to work with patco, to offer patco a contract that they felt would reward patco for the enforcement, and also signal to other unions that more conservative union members that aligning with ronald reagan would be good for you. and actually in the negotiations that broke them that summit in 1981, the reagan administration went further than any previous administration had gone in trying to offer the controllers something. they actually did bark and with patco over what the law did not allow them to bargain over. wages, and benefits, primarily wages that they made an offer to patco that no previous administration had done. the problem was that by that point that offer was so small compared to what the controllers believed that they would get. and their expectations were quite different that they ended up rejecting the offer. controllers look at reagan and they thought this man will help us really fundamentally change the system that still bothers us. and having broken with the rest of organized labor to endorse him, they expected a big breakthrough at the bargaining