Is it laughable though? The union is blockading shipments to a company that chooses not to join. The next step, apparently, will be an embargo on the company's electrical repair work and trash service.

Seems like extortion to me, so I certainly wouldn't want to put my career or my family in the crosshairs of a group that's willing to sink to such lows.

When the mafia demands protection money, it's prudent to fly under the radar.

When a corporation arbitrary decides not to do business with an individual, it's just their legal right.

When individuals decide not to do business with a corporation, it's a mafia, huh?

Corporations have to be forced to submit to society or they'll run roughshod over everyone as soon as they are able. They might even play nice at first, offering good conditions and pay, but that would never last. Learn from history.

Bold of you to assume that the person you're arguing against supports any restraint of free trade.

The whole point is that it's not considered a restraint on free trade if two businesses can't agree on a price and thus don't conduct business, but somehow becomes one when one side is the employee.

Please enlighten us on all the innocent Swedish families killed by union mafia car bombs.