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by mikkergp 1463 days ago
One way conceptualize many companies is that they're just the id of senior execs measuring their genitalia against one other, why shouldn't workers get to participate?
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The workers can make their own company if the terms of their employment don’t make them happy.
Your belief system isn’t congruent with US labor law. Why leave when you can make your existing job better?

Your other comment indicates they should have to amass 51% of company shares. Ridiculous. Their ability to organize and vote to do so comes from their labor rights, and is precisely why they don’t require capital (per labor law) to have a say.

Businesses can be built without capital. They cannot be built without labor.

https://www.laborlab.us/the_right_to_unionize

Or they can organize, as is their legal right, and renegotiate those terms together.

Even if you aren't unionized, it is your right to get together with your coworkers & advocate for better working conditions.

Seems like a waste of effort and manpower if you have an otherwise perfectly salvageable business and product that is being hamstrung by management. Think of the customers.
Again they could, but they would not be following the example set by leadership.