&quot;I agree. Collective bargaining for public workers is overall absurd, IMHO.&quot;<p>What&#x27;s absurd is that there is some special category of speech called &quot;collective bargaining&quot; and that we treat labor&#x2F;union&#x2F;striking speech as somehow different than other speech.<p>I have no idea what collective bargaining is - it just looks like speech to me.  I have no idea what a strike is - it just looks like free assembly to me.<p>Why should these be protected or restricted ?