Is This Becoming a General Strike?
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They don't have enough for CoG from those agencies. They need military to fill in gaps for CoG.
I'm glad to hear you are knowledgeable about this subject. All those capstone FEMA exercises and coordination efforts in the past were conducted to prove your point that there isn't enough people for CoG operations. That means resources have to come from elsewhere. Do I dare mention international and the UN? Other?
My entire point is the strikers must assure their jobs are not filled and being replaced.
For the UN to mobilize it would take half a year. FEMA for example can't mobilize within a month of a hurricane disaster. Living in Florida we know for a fact that FEMA isn't going to "help" within a month. So we plan accordingly to be self sufficient in the case of a disaster. Federal government may wield some power but it is still a cumbersome giant in the grand scheme of things.
The US military is the only one with the proper logistics to mobilize within a month and even then it takes time if we are talking about a nationwide effort.
What's your point in regards to the possibility of strikers being replaced. Why is NY calling the NG to replace medical personnel at hospitals? Why is the MA governor ordering the NG to be bus drivers? Why is FEMA purportedly busing in nurses and medical practitioners to a hospital in TX and elsewhere?
Again, my point is the strikers need to have a plan; a strategy in place to prevent their jobs from being replaced.
Food for thought. I previously stated the following in regards to the airline mandates. There are many ways of doing this from using lawsuits, sit ins, not showing up to work, not flying when scheduled to fly (just walk out of the plane), not loading luggage when the luggage is suppose to be loaded, or loading only part of the luggage, but not all of it, scheduling passengers to wrong destinations, mislabeling luggage, rudeness to ticket purchasers, etc.
There is a thousand and one ways to bring a company to their knees without signaling the government to step in to 'nationalize' the airline and industry. Make them look incompetent.
Many of the people in the NG have civilian jobs. You pull them from their own civilian jobs to cover other civilian jobs still creates a shortage.
The strategy is simple it is a game of chicken and they can't sustain this long term.