The typical "penalty" to a US business for unlawfully firing a worker for protected union activity is simply being ordered to reinstate the worker. Because ther

The typical "penalty" to a US business for unlawfully firing a worker for protected union activity is simply being ordered to reinstate the worker. Because there is zero punitive risk, the first step is often to fire the worker(s). If the government were serious about correcting the massive power imbalance between capital and labor that is currently destroying American society, one of the first steps should be implementing financial penalties for retaliatory termination that are so severe they make the CFO not want to get up and go to work the next morning.