As said in the comments above they where fired because they did naïvely what unions are doing : mutualizing workers' claims to heir hierarchy and make a front.

As said in the comments above they where fired because they did naïvely what unions are doing : mutualizing workers' claims to heir hierarchy and make a front. The article take the thesis of the "youth are worse than before" like Socrates was saying (so old story) The real part of the story is due to experience, the older you are the more likely you are to be a manager or a boss. Hence elder generations will always blame new generations for not knowing their place in this system. And younger person will fall for the trick like their elder, because that what bullying is for: engraving a behavior as a collective norm.