Don't block the road then
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If I want to protest the government, I would write to the government, my local constituants, or if that's a bust, I write to the UN, the WTO, big NGOs. Maybe try to go viral on TikTok, get secondary attention that way.
If I want to inconvenience them in a non-violent way, block their own driveway, or the front steps to their governing house, or even block the front steps of the major news media's headquarters.
What you don't do, is try to block a road in a nation where bandits will block roads and rob those who dare stop at gunpoint. That's like trying to garner support for Sikhs by leaping out from the bushes at midnight at people brandishing your kirpan knife. Yeah, you're showing your solidarity with their religious iconography, but you're doing it in a way that makes you look like a murderous criminal.
Unions on strike almost always get what they want nowadays. And how do they do it? They partially block their own place of business, specifically. There's a proven track record of that getting results. Blocking random roads? Bah.
There's all kinds of ways to protest: Speeches, letters, open letters, petitions, peaceful gatherings that don't block traffic or marches where the public is notified well in advance, lobbying, posting on public boards, vigils, walkouts, boycotts, strikes, lots of online shitposting, selling banned goods and services or even just doing things that hurt nobody while knowing you could be arrested for it.
There's also the Scientology model: First accrue a giant war chest and devout followers. Then when any entity crosses you, you wage a total but legal scorched earth theater of battle on the perps. Target one or more high value individuals, have them watched 24/7 with PI's and make sure they know you're watching, send followers to knock on their doors to ask questions and interview and harass them, dig through their garbage, harass their family and friends via phone, e-mail, and even open letters in publications, float rumors that make their employers want to fire them, provoke them and sue them. Eventually the individuals will crack; even if they work for the FBI (which actually happened before) and let you have your way again.
This isn't actually legal, and the rest as a group would almost certainly be stalking/harassment, but that's what the giant war chest (and implicit threat of violence to anyone that might hold you to task for your crimes) are for.
Unions used to blanket-strike all member shops, not just the problem ones. That's what people forget wrt the 1930s cartoonists' strike (it actually wasn't Walt or his company that was the problem, it was WB and, I think, AAP, but they ALL had to walk because of the fucking union). That had to stop for 2 reasons - unions diversifying too much and the CAW completely breaking off from the UAW over Canadians being forced to walk over issues that didn't affect them at all, while Americans never voted to strike when Canadians were getting shafted.