Their leverage is their value to the company. If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.
That’s not much leverage when there are many, many, people who need work to to live. Against a lone laborer, management holds almost all the cards. There’s always someone more desperate.
Individual workers do not have the leverage to “stand up for themselves,” they just get knocked down.
Their leverage is their value to the company. If you’re not capable of providing more than minimum value for your employer, then why should you work for that company? Find a company you can do more for.
That’s not much leverage when there are many, many, people who need work to to live. Against a lone laborer, management holds almost all the cards. There’s always someone more desperate.