Kurt,

I am sure you recognize the problems with your first statement; and maybe you're being sarcastic and I can't tell? Obviously, the point is to force Starbucks to recognize the union. Many ways to do this; and with all the press and sympathy the NY faction has been getting, this seems largely inevitable. Moreover, you don't fire people for trying to form a union... that's, um, illegal.

Weren't you the guy in another post calling yourself a 'Libertarian'? If that's the case, I've always had a question - it seems to me that one's ability to form into an association of workers is a fundamental freedom, but one that is necessarily in opposition to 'market freedom'. Where do libertarians (or, really, neoliberals) stand on this issue? And if it's with the latter (which I assume it is) how can an abstract freedom like the 'market' be more fundamental than one's ability to organize and join into solidarity with other real, material people?

Just curious.