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Because it's not the freedom to associate, it's collusion to fix prices. If businesses colluded in this way, would we respect their freedom to associate? Of course not, we'd shut them down for violating antitrust laws, and rightly so. Labor unions are essentially just a monopoly on labor.
In this particular case, it's especially silly since the organizer is a part-time employee. He hardly even has a stake in the fight.
It is not a monopoly on labour, especially as the number of union workers in the US is quite small compared to non union.
But if you want to go that route, Apple would have the monopoly on the jobs, and being the supplier seeking to control wages it is colluding against workers to fix labour costs