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The courts should solve this problem. That's their function.

However, SCOTUS has shielded the Executive branch from any consequences. The one branch that should do the thing has abandoned doing their job / the constitution.

Because their businesses will be targeted and persecuted by the petty administration who demands no dissent.

Because the destruction of labor power is what they want, and Trump is giving it to them. Increasing unemployment means more competition for jobs. Fewer people switch jobs to increase pay. Fewer people negotiate. Higher costs mean that laborers are more precarious and more dependent on their income. Fewer people get fed up with the bosses and leave. The bosses hate us and Trump lets them control us more effectively.

Because he'd destroy them one by one.

They'd need to collectively form some kind of union to fight that power imbalance.

Which they know from being on the other side of that dynamic.