The pay was never the root problem, it was just the trigger. >Discontent among its workers had been brewing for months, with reports of harassment, unfair wage

The pay was never the root problem, it was just the trigger. >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. 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 mysteriously leaked and the union busted before it had a chance to get started. They never had a chance. 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 mysteriously prepared to counter your whole strategy, as if they knew all the private stuff you had revelead in confidence to your lawyer. It's not about the 35 cents, as it would not have been about whatever royalties the troll was demanding. It is about being stabbed in the back by the very people that was supposed to defend your case.