Given your awareness of the dispatcher's role in operational control I'm curious how you've come to this conclusion? No dispatchers = no flights released = u no go fly today. Unless the President can figure out a way to suspend the CFRs I'm not seeing a pathway by which a part 121 carrier can operate if all of the dispatchers at the carrier are marching around with signs. I honestly think he would sooner order the dispatchers back to work and grant them binding arbitration.
It seems like there's a lot of "blaming the victim" here. It might help to go back to the beginning of this thread where it's pointed out that UPS has been in negotiating in good faith with the company for over 2 years and have not been able to reach an agreement. Both parties are not interested in this fight continuing, but neither can agree on one or more points. This is why the NMB exists, this is why strike
authorization and the subsequent cooling off period exists, this is why Executive intervention triggering
binding arbitration exists. It's what's called "leverage" and it's nothing personal, only business. A company can decide that they are unable or unwilling to compromise on an item negotiated. If the work group can not see a path forward they lay that grievance upon the National Mediation Board, who will assess the situation and determine if they truly are at an impasse or whether one or both parties have not explored all options or are operating in bad faith. If it's found that the company is refusing to budge and there truly is an impasse a work group will go to its collective workers and tally a strike vote. If the vote passes the union will petition the NMB for relief, which usually is a request for release from arbitration and an authority to strike. The NMB will generally release the parties from arbitration and demand a period of time (a cooling off period) before the union members can execute "self-help", or strike. At any time during this cooling off period both parties can return to the negotiating table, and most strikes are averted in this time period via an tentative agreement. If no agreement is reached and the cooling off period expires workers are legally allowed to strike. At any time during the cooling off period too the government can intervene and prevent a strike if it has compelling reason to believe that a strike would create a national or security emergency (and one could reasonably argue that the sudden stoppage of 1/3 of the cargo movement in the United States might qualify). This is codified through the
National Railway Labor Act.
So all this to say, there are a LOT of mechanisms in place to keep union workers from just arbitrarily getting up and leaving is any little thing pisses them off. Also, to those of you who have voiced a disdain for organized labor, sorry. It's a 1st Amendment right.
