Anonymous asked: So Rand supported strikes and workers unions? Because if not, then she supported obedience to the employer, regardless of what she actually said.
Yes, Rand explicitly supported the right to strike and form unions. Atlas Shrugged specifically has a strike (though not one by a union) as its main plot.
What Rand and individualists in general don’t support, though, is unions beating up scabs and influencing the state to forcibly usurp their employers’ property rights. Again, in Atlas Shrugged, there are examples of unions being beneficial and also of unions doing bad things, just as corporations are also treated in the story. Even in a rather melodramatic novel, it’s not as simple as the silly melodramatic class war narrative of ‘unions good employers bad.’
Not that it applies here but your logic is flawed anyway, it’s entirely possible to not support strikes and unions but also not agree with the statement ‘workers should obey their employers no matter what.’ I don’t know that anyone not made of straw actually agrees with that statement anyway. If anything, it’s just a projection of the sentiment that workers should obey their unions no matter what, which I know a fair number of non-straw people do agree with.