>>>> Why does being in the US matter? How are they demonstrating that they've changed their ways it matters a great deal because competition for labor is diffe

>>>> Why does being in the US matter? How are they demonstrating that they've changed their ways it matters a great deal because competition for labor is different by country. If you have no competition, I would agree with you, its a very bad situation for the worker. >>>>>if they're still exploiting their workers when given the opportunity? People are not exploited because there are companies. People are only exploited if there is opportunity to exploit. At the extreme, you have slavery, which was at the root a govt directive. Opportunity is not the natural state of things in free societies. Societies decide how much opportunity to exploit they want to give the powerful. That's why people still flee China to come to the US >>>> the trend does not show them willingly rolling out benefits to the workers. Yes, but many companies do. My only point is that the trend is pointing to a healthy society, not that society is perfect. Trader Joes, Costco etc come to mind. This is much better than it was even 20 years ago. >>>> As for Pinkerton, the company still works in the same field. Here's one example. Its a very bad example. I just read about it - Pinkerton at its height of power was the largest private security force world.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)#cite_note-4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)#c... This only reinforces the observation that the general trend is to move away from such services, at least in the USA