But they can steal your labour all they want and no one says a thing.

With a media that only reports on labour issues from the employer’s perspective, ignoring the facts entirely comes naturally. Employers make-up reasons all the time to not pay you and no one is calling them thieves when they do it. Where is the headline about the atrocities committed in the service industry? Tip confiscation, unpaid hours, unpaid overtime, sexist policies, and I could go on.