Over the years businesses have acquired massive amounts of power over the laborer.  Through systemic practices that alienate labor from complicated tasks and the products themselves, workers have become easily replaceable.  The simplification, and breaking down of the assembly/creative process have contributed to a large pools of unskilled labor for big businesses to pull from. This weakens unions, and in general gives big business the upper hand when negotiating employment.  In addition, big businesses, have started outsourcing their social incentives, i.e health insurance, opportunities to invest, etc. So now in general, people are working more than they ever have, getting paid less than ever,  and receiving less benefits. It's a carefully constructed paradigm built in the favor of big business.  This unbalance forces labor into tight economic situations and makes the exploitation of the laborer even easier. As a result starting Unions has become increasingly difficult for the people. So the very mechanisms the worker has is being denied through dubious tactics and internal bureaucratic squabbling. As a result, we need to start working on understanding what are the major hurdles for employees trying to start unions as they are one of the main tools for organized labor when combating the described imbalances. In addition, we need to start to understand, as a nation what big-business practices are and in what ways they are hurting the worker or helping. Ultimately, a major part of what needs to happen in order to balance the scales is a reorientation of the way our economy is set up. As of now, big business, dominates the economic space and has built the landscape to their advantage. In order to retake the ground lost we need to localize our economies. The more localized our economies the more likely labor has the chance to become key components and thus give the labor more power as an employee. The city scape should not just be collections of the same handful of companies repeated over and over again. In many ways this creates monopolies and steeps community members in materialism that is not at all tied to the original identities of that community. Returning these spaces to the community and its own entrepreneurs allows for generated wealth to stay local, further empower the laboring force and community in general, instead of filling the coffers of big business. By creating policy and campaigns aimed at empowering unions and motivating local economies over big-business we can begin to toe-to-toe with big business rather than constantly cater to it.  It is important to note that this would be the agenda; to create tangible policy aimed at the goals described. These conversations have a long way to go but there is a lot of methodology worked out under the umbrella concept Degrowth. The concepts that rest under this school of thought are aimed at restoring power to labor and community as a remedies to the cultural damage that big business's growth mentality has caused.