Neoliberalism in the UK and the USA were similar in regards to their aims, neoliberalism aimed to create a culture of enterprise in both countries. Furthermore, in both countries it aimed at ending the culture of dependency upon the state and the unions. Although the unions did not have the same level of power in the USA as they did in the UK, the unions in both countries were blamed for the rampant unemployment as unions pushed for such high wages and therefore changed workers' expectations and would not accept wages they believed to be beneath these expectations, thus leading to unemployment. In the USA, Reagan also had his own battle with the unions. In 1981 he ordered the workers in the PATCO strike back to work, however only 1500 obeyed
