They can be nothing more than mafia like thugs with their behavior. I had a friend who was ex-military and worked for the Company in the 80’s. He left that type of work and decided to open a coal company in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, non union company. He came in one morning and the whole site was at a stand still. He had visitors from the local UMWA on site and they came in bullying the other employees and told them until they went union they were not working.
My friend looked at his people and said get back to work I’ll take care of this, now and they did. The union thugs started in with their threats on him personally. Having combat experience and 3rd world experiences he said you get off my worksite now. They made personal threats of things that would happen to him and he said get off this worksite and don’t ever set foot here again or they will carry you off and as far as your threats I have been shot at before and I shoot back. If I have to drive here and home shooting you SOB’s each way that is fine by me, please. They left and left him and his company alone. Pure thugs.
Good for him. Lucky they didn’t come back to get serious. The Philly incident I wrote about was very serious with major arson, destruction of equipment (close to $1 million today) and assault.