There seems to be a perpetual battle between those who control capital, as contrasted to those who need some form of capital, such as wages, in order to have a fair opportunity to live a decent life. So then, because workers always far outnumber those who are or represent the employer, it signifies that each party has a form of power over the other. To wit, for those who are laborers, their main strength comes from the sheer numbers of those who seek work but have minimal agency to demand much of anything on their own, which is why they recognize that their surest way to having influence and a form of power is through a labor union, and to the degree so possible, the government backing their rights to organize into unions. On the other side, is those that are the decision makers as to who does or does not get employed, which puts employers in a rather enviable position, especially when there is either an overabundance of those that are seeking employment or when owners have the ready option to employ either those that are undocumented domestically or can take their job needs overseas, and thus save money by the usage of a workforce that typically has less rights, and are almost always far cheaper in overall cost.
Indeed, whenever the workers have essentially no voice, because they are powerless in the sense that they have no union, in addition to the fact that they have no government structure to backstop them, so that they have no rights to set work hours, that they have little or no say in influencing their pay, that there is a dearth of options when it comes to their places for employment, and they have no security that their job will be there in the long run for them, then they are pretty much exploitable by their employer. So then, their only real way thereby to fight back is going to be through doing those types of things that express their dissatisfaction in their working conditions and their pay by not putting forth the effort to perform at the level that they could perform because they have little or no incentive or reason to do so.
Indeed, employers that complain that those that they employ are often listless, mistake prone, not reliable, cheat, steal, and seemingly don’t care about the quality of the work that they are doing, and thus they must resort to stronger methods to keep their employees in line, often don’t seem to realize that when the lion’s share of the profits and benefits are going to upper management and the Executive office, and those that they employ are pretty much in a position in which they recognize that they are being exploited is going to lead to an inefficiency in operations, because those that have no security in their employment, and do not truly make a living wage are definitely going to be resentful and will not often give their best effort.
The answer then for those situations in which workers have limited or no choices, is for this government, of, for, and by the people to be the honest broker between these two parties, by seeing that a living wage is the law of the age, that there is more security in the jobs obtained, and that domestic workers should always come first as a nation’s priority particularly in regards to jobs being exported, and in absence of a formal union, that this government always plays fair.