My thoughts would be that if the Air Traffic Controllers Association felt so strongly they would attempt to cease these new procedures in order to protect their own members as well as the travelling public!
Bet your life Anderson will insist a controller be sacrificed in order to preserve the integrity of his almighty NAS.
Refusing to operate under the NAS guidelines would certainly make Mr Anderson look like an idiot and make the public wake up and support the Air Traffic fellas as well as AIPA on this one.