I was cornered by union goons decades ago when I was a teenager and threatened with broken bones if I did not do what the union wanted (I quit that job immediately). I was threatened by union goons again two years ago and I suggested that they might want to back off (for reasons that I’ll leave out of this post) - and they backed off permanently. It’s amazing how good it feels not to bow down to evil thugs!
My brief time on a factory floor in a union shop convinced me to go back to college... and I hated the whole college experience. Up until then, I had never heard anyone seriously threaten to slash someone else's tires or assault their wife.