> since if they don't like the wage, they can always go elsewhere
Capitalists are well known to collude to keep pay down and viciously suppress unions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/24/306592297...
https://fortune.com/2023/03/02/nlrb-starbucks-union-buffalo-...