Samsung chair imprisoned and 24 others found guilty in union-busting case

Well, the allegations, as presented in the article sound pretty bad, and are a few steps beyond the typical workplace retaliation that you would expect for trying to form a union.

In Silicon Valley, you'll typically get put on a PIP, get your reputation smeared, mysteriously discover that your performance reviews have tanked, or get investigated and fired for violations of a deliberately vague, ill-defined policy that everyone else is breaking all the time.

But you're probably not going to get your family spied on, or blackmailed.

Any such retaliation should be dealt with harshly. After all it is a fundamental right of workers to collectively bargain and eroding that right is a pretty big crime.

It should, but it isn't. At best, it gets hush-hushed with quiet after-the-fact no-admission-of-guilt settlements protected by NDAs.

At worst, you lose your retaliation lawsuit, and have blackballed yourself from the industry. There's a reason employers do background checks on new hires.

The Samsung stuff here, though, is truly beyond the pale, because it extends outside the workplace, and is well-documented. (As opposed to he-said-she-said subjective things like performance reviews...)