Phazer
.450/400 Nitro Ex
Any job I've ever had included the simple expectation that if you were scheduled to work, you worked. Otherwise you were no longer employed.If they walk out, make sure they keep walking, fuk'm. They can always be replaced with illegal aliens.... sorry, I mean "migrants".
Federal employees have the same rights to assembly and to protest as any other citizen. They may do so in their personal time. Thus, if they are scheduled to work, and they leave work, they should be considered to have tendered their resignation.
President Reagan called the bluff of the air traffic controllers.