Deroy Murdock has an illuminating column today on the tactics employed by union protesters against those who oppose their bilking of the taxpayers. The union zealots not only think they are entitled to other people’s money, but also entitled to use force to keep the flow of money coming.
If labor unions were voluntary associations of people who come together to improve their conditions by the use of peaceful means, there could be no principled objection to them. Unfortunately, the labor movement long ago gave up on voluntarism and peaceful methods. They have relentlessly pursued special interest legislation that allows them to coerce membership, coerce “bargaining” and coerce those workers who don’t wish to obey union dictates.
