What part of free are you speaking about? In my world, it is a MERITOCRACY. Excellence begets superior results. Superior results beget profits, and it usually reaps a reward. Unions are socialist, not free association. You need to get a better conservative dictionary.
"Workers of the world, unite". Sound familiar?
I have personally busted picket lines with over 150 pickets trying to stop a concrete slab placement.
I have been an officer in a hundred year old company busting out of five trade jurisdiction contracts. But I have also served as an industry rep on union pension fund boards.
My dad had a bomb go off just as he was going to open his office door when I was ten.
There is nothing I don’t know first hand about construction unions. Both working with them and against them.
Most of the members are our countrymen. Sure there is the marxist organizer and BA crowd but a lot of them helped elect Reagan and if we show them common courtesy and a honest shake they will stand with us because they are largely honest journeymen at their craft and have commonsense.
We don’t like it when we are tarred with a brush of robber baron or race supremitist when there are a few like that wearing our school colors. They shouldn’t have to bear each and every wrong for all of union criminality.
Leftist ideology is the cancer not our countrymen exposed to it, blighted by it or raised within it.