Now Rooster, don't get confused as to the order in which anyone is forced or obligated to work or not.
The medical profession enjoys "total" protection from competion from many areas of other providers. For this they have no "contract" and no obligation, legal or otherwise???? Well, ok so be it.
How is one to square with the Federal government, legally forcing union workers to work against their wishes???? They have a right to strike, yet are forced to work. This is done because it is deemed to be harmful to the public welfare.
The doctors do not mind that the longshoremen, miners or whomever are forced to work. I suspect the difference here is that we are discussing a government protected profession vs the common man. The socialists realize this and exploit it, yet republicans and conservatives wonder why the common worker supports and votes for democrats.
The government does not protect the longshoremen from competion, yet recently they were forced to work against their will.
As for the FAA, I had retired the year before the strike. My friends were stupid for striking, yet they were fired for withholding their service, which no one else could provide, all in the name of public safety.
Personally, I am with the doctors but once again, they have shirked their obligation to society to open the medical field to others, refused to call for an increase in the supply of doctors, and why??? Because they have a lock on their clients because of the government. If they want to withhold their service, fine with me but I would suspend their licence, no other profession or employee has such protection. None, absolutely none.