Opportunity exists with options, and workers have options.
Collective action is simply extortion.
There is no right to strike, only a right to quit. Labor needs to be competitive, just as laborers demand that prices be competitive and if someone is willing to do a job for less, let that be an option.
If someone I don’t know threatens to imperil my business if I don’t give them money, I can have them arrested for extortion. If the someone who threatening my business is an employee, suddenly the law is on the extortionists side!
Laborers may always take their labor down the street if they think they “deserve” more, and thereby test their skills on the open market, as I must do with my goods. Perhaps there was a place for legalized extortion when one was tied by lack of transportation to a small town coal mine, but now anyone can be 3,000 miles away offering their services in a single day.
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