Prof, the fact is that as the labor laws and OSHA protections have been weakened, the incident rates have gone up. The cases of abusive treatment towards employees have gone up. When employees try to organize, the employers purposefully violate NLRA because the enforcement dollars have been cut to the point of almost being useless, plus the Board in DC throws out many cases because they are dominated by right wing members. Imagine the part of government that was established to be a watchdog for workers rights dominated by right wing, pro business partisans.

Employers have gotten smarter alright, but not at treating their employees better.

Mick