The people who build collective power are typically individuals who have lacked traditional access to individualized power. What they know too is that collective power is, well, empowering.
A company isn't a family. Parents don't fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times.
A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.
somewhere along the line we morphed "bad working environment" and "hard working environment" together and transferred the sins of the former to the latter.