ATCs already tried that under Reagan. He fired all of them and they were permanently banned from ever working with the FAA again. Trump would do it in an instant.
A general strike is many industries striking in solidarity. Stock up on essentials, paralyze everything, and hold your nerve. Can't even sack anyone if the HR departments are missing or no power to the buildings.
General strikes are effectively illegal in US via the Taft-Hartley Act, unless they can somehow be arranged without involving unions.
Legalized violence, which is authorized against union organized general strikes, has historically been intermittently effective at breaking up union strikes, and in any case, would likely cripple it enough to not help the ATCs.
I definitely agree. Trump is a crazy old man shaking his fist at the clouds with extreme prejudice. Unfortunately, he is backed by people whose philosophy is to shrink government to the point where it could be drowned in a bathtub.
I agree with what another poster said about bringing in some French people to teach us the importance of general strikes and shutting everything down to make our point.
Failing that, I think blue states should offer a federal tax escrow service to pay for what they've been promised but denied.
Trump already tried supplementing with military ATC. It's not the 80s, that didn't work this time (the two are too different. Everywhere is held together with it's own special duct tape). How is firing them all going to reopen anything?
