There is a reason. North America is, and always has been, a tool for extracting resources and labour from 'the new world', businesses moved from Europe to America specifically because slavery was still a legal option.
While slavery in name is gone, in practice it is still very much present in the form of minimum wage and part time employment.
Slavery is still allowed for prisoners :(
The reason is simple, we just can't afford bonuses this year. For you. We gotta tighten our belts, its been a rough year— what? Record profits? Well yes, but that's going to reinvestment and infrastructure buildouts for new avenues of- so we'll actually be hiring a lot of new— we'll yes we did just layoff 15% of the team, but these are new positions outside of our usual pool of experience- look what im trying to say is your raises are capped at 2% going forward. Now I know many of you might— what's that? The ceo just bought a fourth yacht? Thats probably due to their larger investment portfolio and not really just because of the executive bonuses— what are your talking about unions? We're a family here!
The article title said "good reason" not simply reason. We know the reasons.