I Have Been Asking This Question

all along, and that's why it is the workers, the rank-and-file, have to always be forced into concessions, yet the robber barons practically get away with murder?

It's because economic policies don't favor the huge majority of people; those in power want to retain that power and enrich themselves further at the vast majority's expense. But if anybody DARE raise the obvious problems, they are accused of waging "class warfare," or they are "envious."