I can appreciate your case but will it do more harm than good? That has been the case with the Zero to date. One poorly though out act after another.
All I can say is that this is what happens when business people do not exercise a reasonable level of common sense on such matters.
If you abuse your employees, day after day for years, throughout a 300 store chain, and all of your competitors are doing likewise....eventually you generate a backlash.
And some opportunistic politician like Obama will be there ready to pounce on it.
Conservatism preaches that people should police themselves.
In reality few do.