...but thanks.

...but it's like reporting getting robbed and being told to elect a better police force.

Not your fault, I'm sure you mean well.

leave.

I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.

This is not news.

eta: as long as they aren't breaking any law

Where is the law saying they have to share profits with you?

Lobby to get a law passed. (I'm sure that will happen.)

Public shame. Contact a newspaper. Write a letter to the editor. You will have to assess whether that is a good idea for your continued employment or not.

...is it okay with you if I just vent a little for now?

Put my neck on the line writing LTTEs.

Fact is...employees have very few tools.

You don't have a contract, so how did they do anything illegal?

Eventually it all comes down to those who own and run the company deciding between themselves and the rest of the company, who gets the proceeds, and it's not hard to understand that it's always easy for someone splitting money to rationalize why they should have more and others less.

Have that happen for a few generations, and that's how you get progressively worse income inequality.

This is why regulation will eventually have to encompass how much profit has to be shared with workers.

...companies taking advantage of the down economy to squeeze workers for more 'production' for less wage and benefit - all the while, reaping record profits for the top of the pyramid.

I have seen efforts in individual states to limit owner profits made at the expense of workers.

Richard Wolff's website.

in the local paper. Do try very hard to interest them in doing that.

And as easy as it is for someone like me to say, Oh just go organize a union, the reality is that it's very hard to do so. Aside from the many illegal things companies do to stop that, too many employees are either afraid or honestly think they'll lose more by organizing.

I sometimes think we're going to need for conditions for workers to get as desperate as they were in the depths of the Great Depression for union organizing to start up again significantly. Not that I wish for such conditions, but maybe more people need to feel they have absolutely nothing to lose to be willing to take the risk.

I do hope something good can eventually come of what happened.

and end-all of human economic activity, eh? Please know that you and your co-workers have my sympathies and my solidarity. Without your naming of the company, however, there's no way I as a consumer can boycott or as investor can dump any shares of stock I might inadvertently hold in my now-microscopic IRA.

... trying not to let emotions take me to a place where I jeopardize my employment. Appreciate the solidarity, tho. Mostly just venting right now.

to vent and it's a rotten trick your employer\management pulled.

Unless the company has to worry about its employees leaving, they have no reason to do the right thing.

...I really need to talk with my co-workers and lower-level managers when I get back (day off). That's looking to be less a bargaining chip and more of a definitive option as I simmer down.