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One thing I learned a long time ago in ops is that if it doesn’t break (because someone sacrifices they’re well-being), then it won’t get fixed.

The managers and leaders keep pushing things because they can.

Absolutely. And union negotiations, and then a strike, are some ways that the workers can make it break.

Except when, as in this case, they are forbidden from striking by law.

Which is a legislative form of ‘keep working your field peasant, or else.’