“They should be dealt with a la Reagan’s confrontation with the Air Traffic Controllers!”
EXACTLY what I was thinking. That was so cool!!
At that time, I laughed my head off for hours. Reagan gave a very short deadline to anyone to get back his/her job. I don't remember if anyone did, thinking Reagan will back down because he didn't have enough trained replacements. Lo and behold, Reagan put Air Force personnel in charge, replaced them little by little with new, non-union trained civilians and the rest is history!