The employees that work for these places should unionize.

"We brought in the union busters, but they went on strike." Would be just 👌

That's just what we know about.

Still less than paying your employees.

Maybe that should be illegal.

And I get hard to enforce, but driving it underground is likely a win.

They're winning all the way to the bank. Those costs are also tax deductible, so free government support to kill unions.

$1.5B a year is such high ROI for them.

Well yeah. I mean. In modern times you could say workers have been fighting this battle since the mid 1700s I think. And further back even ancient Rome had a shipbuilders guild that took care of its members. Everybody who's anybody knows unions are good for workers. And when everything you earn must be taken from others, that's a bit much to ask of today's billionaires

Tale as old as time.

The amount spent trying to not pay people more is usually more than if they just paid people more.