Unions aren ' t allowed in a lot of contracts signed for employment . Honestly service industry workers are essentially slaves and we can ' t get it changed because the industries that set these standards have more political influence than a serving strike could ever impact . Believe me I actively vote and push for change but one man can only do so much , and most people seem content because they don ' t know they can help change it . It ' s sad to see but America is a land of people who don ' t like change , at all . So it ends up that the people with the influence to change these things are the ones who are keeping them in place . And our individual voices are ignored as the complaints of a single person and not the collective outcry of a generation who ' s being shit on economically .