What use are workers' rights if workers are punished for insisting on them?

Some conclusions:

- The natural consequence of today's economic conditions — low wages and powerlessness of workers, brought about by dooH niboR policies imposed by plutocratist politicians — is that bosses have more power over workers. This enables the abuses that we see.

We need to change these conditions as well as enforce workers' rights.

- Unions protect workers from this treatment. The weakness of unions, arranged deliberately by plutocratist politicians, also makes workers vulnerable. We need to strengthen unions as well as enforce workers' rights.

- In such circumstances, requiring workers to actively demand their rights makes those rights ineffective.

- Fines against the business won't stop the abuses unless the fines are very very large.

- I suggest laws that make it a crime for the local manager to do certain things that violate workers' rights. With undercover thugs that get hired as workers and arrest the local managers, those would be scared to commit the abuses even when their bosses demand it.

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