Answer: The scumbag lawyers are grabbing the millions and there's jack squat left over for the chumps. A few of the chumps got a tad upset by this realization and so the scumbag lawyers are trying to shut them up for $500 each.
There is an alternative to the lawyers and government intervention: unions. Let workers organize and fight for their rights together.
I would be in favor of making unions membership mandatory for everybody who works. Hey, let even managers have their own unions!