Or rather...an entity whose time has come and gone. Their message was received early in the movement and there are laws now that protect workers.
All we see now is residual
greed.
Ahh, selective greed goings on here.
The working class has suffered with flat wages for decades as noted by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics @ this link:
http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/Wages+and+Benefits:+Real+Wages+(1964-2004)
Yet during that time period businesses have seen great growth and more wealth has been concentrated within the upper percentile as noted in this piece:
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998 (
Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Income Inequality in the United States, 1913
Facts are facts. No one can disprove that wages have been flat and they can't disprove the result of flat wages in a profitable environment is a growing gap in wealth and the continuation of wage inequality.
Yet to some, the working class are the greedy ones and are leaches of society, yet they make up a majority of society. Many of those who defend wage inequality are actually themselves victims of wage inequality, they are so blinded by their ideology, they don't see the reality of the wage inequality environment.
Why is it that unions are called thief's, when in fact it's the upper wealth percentile who are holding down wage growth in a profitable environment?