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By considering employers spend billions of dollars a year lobbying to keep the power imbalances.

Think about the efforts Amazon and Walmart go to keep their employees from unionizing.

Consider how Uber misclassified workers as contractors to avoid providing legal benefits.

Or how every year before the pandemic there was push back on not just raising minimum wage laws but efforts to completely repeal them.

This goes back in history to unsafe working environments, overtime, health insurance, workers comp, etc…

Stock markets are at record highs, companies have record profits, economic inequality is at all time highs…yet businesses continue to push the narrative they pay to much to workers and the would rather strip all Americans of benefits, who really need them, just so they can fill a handful of jobs at below market rates and below living wages.