The only way to stop the abuse is to Unionize. From the National Labor Relations Board’s website:
The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights. nlrb.gov
HR will try to gaslight you. Your manager will try to gaslight you. They will tell you it isn’t as bad as you think, that unions are dying, that unions will take your money and not do anything, but ask yourself why they are working so hard to try to keep you from unionizing…is it because they want what’s best for you? If that’s the case, then where is the transparency, the fairness, the compassion? Is it so hard to accept that the real reason is that unions get results, and that Wayne and the EC are terrified they might have to take away some of the extra bonuses and perquisites given to EMG, and give a little bit to non-EMG?