These employers are certainly coordinating on wages, RTO policy, etc. They do it via third party compensation research firms. It's suspicious that people downvote your suggestion that workers also coordinate.
This stuff is in plain daylight. It's not hard to see it from inside the companies that people here work at. I think most people just don't connect the dots or something, since execs and HR certainly don't do that for them in how they talk about it and why.
I'm talking about the legal ways it happens, too. It's not only some "isolated cases of bad actors" as some put it.
on the face of it, it sounds like a flavor of anarchism, along that spectrum and with some similar appealing points. but then there comes all this state and state police stuff, and endless domination and role based subjugation in a variety of legalized ways that rely on state violence to preserve. I can't understand the coherency so the results are suspicious
(also, unions are not the only way for labor to organize. there are lots of ways to do this.)