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Quote by: Prometheus Voluntary - a choice that you are not forced to make. It's not that hard to undstand. I have the option not to join. No one makes you do it. There are plenty of options - start your own union, underbid the union, work for a small enough company that they don't need union loyalty. Claiming that you are "forced" to joid a union demonstrates a poor grasp of the english language as well as a lack of creativity.

You really have no clue, don't you? You do *NOT* have the option not to join if you work in a union shop or the shop you work in becomes union while you are employed there. Once it becomes union, you either join or you get fired. There are no other options. Therefore, it is not voluntary. If you want to work in radio, television or many other industries, there *ARE* no non-union stations. The entire industry is controlled, hook, line and sinker by the union and in order to be involved, you join the union or you don't work.

Is there a concept here you're just not capable of grasping or what?

A chriminal action is one that is against the law. Something that you go to jail for. You might call thier actions chriminal in a hyperbolic sence to say that you disapprove of what they do. But usless they have broken laws, they are not chriminal.

Yes, unions routinely act in a criminal fashion in order to get power. The company my wife works for is non-union and will always be non-union, but the union desperately wants to get a foothold. They will sit outside with picket signs and block access to the business entirely. The police will be called, the union will behave for the few minutes the police are there and then go right back to blocking business. These are just basic harassment techniques that unions use, there are many other things that cross the legal line as well.