[kweingar]

Without the backing of government, the only way unions would be effective is through violence or destruction of property.

I don't think enough business people understand that having a well-defined legal framework for labor disputes is beneficial for their own safety and security, unless their expectation is that government ought to intervene on behalf of business but never on behalf of labor.

[Animats]

Few people know much labor history now. The era when unions could put a thousand people on a factory gate to prevent scabs from entering is long gone. That's how the auto companies were unionized.