We are forgetting that the "Big Corporations" are us. We buy and own the stock (that includes most of the voting stock) and expect rich dividends. The Ontario Public Employees are perhaps the biggest single stockholder group in Canada and one of the two largest landlords (in our city, over 1500 miles from the Toronto megapolis; they own 1/3 of all the office highrise and class A business office space here). All this in addition to the stock portfolios.
Their holdings are small potatoes compared to similar employee holdings in the United States. When I was employed by one of the major oil companies, I remember that the pension fund built and owned the company's skyscraper in Houston. I don't know what other holdings they had, but they were large. These stockholders are ordinary paid employees; computer typists, busdrivers to teachers to stockroom clerks to parks employees etc. etc. These are the people that you must convince that change is needed. Company directors act to protect the interests of the stockholders, who, as I say, are us.
Is this the "working class" that you are going on about? I think the term is obsolete, having vanished with the company store, the large mills that used human labor,etc., that we have shipped abroad to the less affluent countries. It takes a real crisis to worry the ordinary public; real deep depression or the like or they will never join together and vote for change.
"I'm all right, Jack." "What, me worry?"