This is happenening in all areas these days. You bust ass for years and all that you've acrued is taken away. Vacations, personal days, HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS, pay raises even though the product is sold for more, name it. If the working stiff doesn't wake the hell up he'll find himself building a pyramid. Bring back the Wobblys.
Education is a public fail because the kids arrive unfit to be educated, the problem lies in apathetic homes with apathetic parents. This firing is just a form of PSY-OP used against every working person in this country and some idiots actually embrace it. As George Carlin said they think that they're part of the club, the in crowd, but they're NOT.
Firing people wholesale and making them beg for their job back for less is just frigging wrong no matter how you cut it. WRONG.