Class Warfare and the Unions

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I would say to remind them that in the early days of unions, they had no legal protection at all. Their power was in simply being the people who could do the job, and presenting a solid front. Management had to negotiate because the union got good at keeping anyone else from taking those jobs. Management sometimes responded with direct violence, too.
All that's to say, most union success did not have any legal protection, so the fact that the law is largely moot should not be seen as a huge impediment to union action. If anything, it removes the variable of whether the government is going to back you up. Expect them not to; act anyway.