The Right To Assemble, Or To refrain From Assembling

FAIRNESS AND COMMON SENSE dictate that union membership not be required as a condition for employment. Similarly, fairness and common sense stipulate that no obstacles impede the formation of labor unions, when worker demand dictates their formation.To the degree and extent that ownership opposes unionization, let opposition to union formation be equaled by worker opposition to corporate monopolies and chambers of commerce. To the extent that unions oppose open shops, begrudging fellow workers their "free ride", let the union take a vote on whether they actually advocate for the right of all workers to better their circumstances as they deem fit. Humans are notoriously unable to walk in the moccasins of others. What we perceive to be prosaic gibberish among others becomes pure poetry when engendered within ourselves. The buck private warns of an approaching enemy and is dismissed. The high ranking officer gives the same warning, and defenses are readied. Workers and employers only fail to understand each other's viewpoint by refusing to do so. In the realm of employer employee relationships, a decent respect for the power of reason compels us to accept the natural tendency of the employed to organize their affairs so as to better their condition, even while the owners seek to maximize profit by maximizing exploitation of labor. Senseless it is to ignore human nature, according to which everyone acts in his or her own best interest. Labor unions are nothing other than manifestations of the sacred right to peaceably assemble. The right of a worker to be employed without mandatory union membership is nothing other than the sacred right to refrain from assembling, or speaking.