> many white collar workers also don't want to be associated with the image of people in hard hats, even though their power relationship with their employers is

> many white collar workers also don't want to be associated with the image of people in hard hats, even though their power relationship with their employers is not that different from those of blue collar workers I'm not sure that it's reasonable to bucket the bargaining position of all white-collar workers together. The negotiating strength of an employee is strongly tied to the supply and demand of other workers with a similar skillset, which varies widely within "white collar" industries. > Acknowledging this would mean acknowledging the existence structural impediments to their career advancement that make the chances of their entering the C-suite very low, and that's a bitter pill to swallow. No amount of collective action is going to significantly increase an individual worker's chance of making it into the C-suite. It's a simple question of numbers.