Collective bargaining PRIVILEGES

I'm really growing weary of hearing about "collective bargaining rights".

Ahem. They're not rights, they're privileges. They were granted by government, as a result of democratic processes in order to set social policy. Right?

Government Giveth, Government Taketh Away

First, if the government grants something, it's a privilege*. It can be taken away. It's not inalienable. While it's nice to think of it as a right, it's simply not realistic to think that the privilege cannot be taken away, that it is yours forever. Think of it as a collective bargaining license. Like a driver's license**, it's granted by government, and can be restricted or taken away when it's been abused by the recipients.

Second, there is no such thing as a collective right. What is the source of so-called collective rights? The size of the group you are in? If one person doesn't have the right, how can two? Four? Ten? Thousands? It's a fantasy.

Third, it's really strange to see people who normally celebrate democracy and majority rule pushing back so hard when the pendulum swings the other way, when democratic processes lead to outcomes they don't like. (Surely the protesters and their supporters aren't claiming that the Republican majority in Wisconsin wasn't democratically elected, are they?)

* This is the age of the internet. I'm not going to try to explain this, feel free to google search for "rights vs. privileges". Yeah, I know people like to call government-granted privileges rights, but that doesn't make it so.

Addendum

** I'll be only to glad to argue that the state has no legitimate power to prohibit free travel by motor vehicle, that drivers' licenses are a particularly nasty bit of statist evil, but that's another argument for another day. Let's just agree that today, the state wields the power to prohibit your driving a car if you don't have the state's permission, and thus it is a privilege. So if you accept that the state has power, what's so horrible about prohibiting you and a group of like-minded people getting together to bargain for higher wages, and 'strike' (without fear of being fired) if you aren't happy with the way negotiations are going? Once we allow the state to wield arbitrary power in order to set social policy, it's simply a matter of whose policy it sets.