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It's a bit of a digression but I was recently discussing the state of labor relations in the US with someone and in every single workplace it's basically devolved into management just refusing to ever admit any wrongdoing. Even in nonprofit institutions with long standing contracts you'll have ice cold HR people who won't give an inch on blatant violations until there's a credible threat of labor action or arbitration. Also US labor law either implicitly or explicitly requires management and labor to cooperate so management is usually just flagrantly violating the law.
Capital has figured out they don't have to offer the carrot anymore and they certainly don't have to apologize. It's just the stick now. Until the masses figure that out we're fucked.