Negotiation through Extortion: support your local Union/Mob today!

This strike is pissing me off.

The best part of this strike is where other unions also walk away from the job 'in support'. I've never seen a more blatant example of extortion in my life -- apparently some negotiation snafu with an unrelated business is reason for your workplace to strike too, and the puppet union members happily walk off the job. Yay!

What a nice school you have there. It would be a shame if no one showed up to work on monday. Don't get injured, because striking garbagemen have blocked the hospital, and Doctors can't cross the picket lines unless it's important. That hip replacement you've been waiting a year for? Maybe next year.

That kind of thing. The threat of work disruption is the only method that seems to be exercised by unions, and unions exist to employ as many members for as much money as possible. Tell me how that differs from the Mob?