…and corporations will respond by acting like petulant children, escalating their bad faith, up to and including declaring open war on their employees.
The punishment for union-busting should be nationalization - nothing less will get it through the CEO’s thick skulls.
I never had the chance to gain friends in my formative years; I grew up in neighborhoods filled with what were apparently now proto-fascists - this community would recognize the toxic masculinity. They all hated me simply because my family was poor, or because I moved in from somewhere else. They were never clear on why. All I know is that I am hated wherever I go, no matter how kind I am to others. There is no place for me on Earth - not even the option to move far away, because the part of people that hates the “other” is universal.