Some people view unionization as extortion. You filled out a job application and now you want to control the capital and resources of the people who gave you the job?
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You mean people you provide with workforce.
BTW as long as it's called HR employees are treated as assets not people. Interestingly companies are willing to pay higher prices for other resources but not for people.
You give people some money and now you want to control how they spend their time?
Adam Smith had worthwhile observations about how he compensated his employees. Some call it his Theory of Labor. I call it a successful Scottish business man calling it as he saw it back then
I just wish the people running the union I belong to understood what he said so they could make a more cogent argument than *You're rich so give me your money."
If they didn't want to sell me their time, they didn't have to.
It's interesting how you view the equalization of power as extortion, though. It's OK for the company to coordinate, with a well-defined structure, a leader, etc, but when the employees do it, it's suddenly extortion?