On Labor Day, we affirm that everyone should have the freedom to seek employment wherever they choose, and should never be bullied or harassed for exercising that freedom.

Americans should be able to get a job and go to work without, for example, being swarmed by knife-wielding Teamsters who trap them in vans for hours.

Unfortunately, that is not an exaggerated hypothetical, but a real situation that nearly 40 Boston-area Republic Services workers recently found themselves in as they pulled up in vans to a waste management facility being picketed by the Teamsters union.

Teamsters-controlled garbage collectors in Boston went on strike in July, leaving trash piling up across the city. To prevent a dangerous public health situation and to attempt to serve its customers, Republic hired workers to conduct periodic trash pickups........

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