The pay was never the root problem, it was just the trigger.<p>&gt;Discontent among its workers had been brewing for months, with reports of harassment, unfair wage deductions and unsafe work conditions as well as poor wages.<p>So this guys organize, demand a raise, and when it was denied call for a strike. Most people that was fired is precisely the same people that had signed formal paperwork to get a union started. The government agency in charge of seeing it through was legaly bounded to keep the list private until after the process was completed, yet the names were <i>mysteriously</i> leaked and the union busted before it had a chance to get started. They never had a chance.<p>I know people around here are pretty much anti-labour, so I am goint to explain in terms you can empathize with. Imagine your startup was hit by a pattent troll. You hire a lawyer, go to court and there you find out the pattent troll has <i>mysteriously</i> prepared to counter your whole strategy, as if they <i>knew</i> all the private stuff you had revelead in confidence to your lawyer.<p>It&#x27;s not about the 35 cents, as it would not have been about whatever royalties the troll was demanding. It <i>is</i> about being stabbed in the back by the very people that was supposed to defend your case.