I hear what you're saying. I don't see the methods you listed working under our government as our system has this flaw where the laws enforced tend to depend on which party is in charge.
That being said, organize your workplace. I'm personally fond of the Industrial Workers of the World as we are the only union that has an anticapitalist stance and our industrial organizing methods make it harder for employers to create division amongst the workers of a workplace (ie: separate unions for school teachers and school maintenance staff).
"Type M (BS 546) Plugs
They are distinguished from Type D plugs by their larger pins and current rating of 15A. The central earthing pin is 28.89 mm long and 8.71 mm in diameter, while the hot and neutral pins are both 18.94 mm long, 7.06 mm in diameter, and spaced 25.4 mm apart."
"We were just thinking of the shareholders." You can't just pass the blame to shareholders. Why do shareholders exist? To create the illusion that everyone can be an "owner" so that the owning class can continue to fuck us all.
This is why I personally don't believe in jail/prison. Rehabilitation, yes. Jail or prison? No. I'm no professional but I feel as though I have seen countless studies about how our prison system is a failure and how all it does is set people up to come back. That doesn't even touch on private prisons and their financial incentives to get people back into the system.
Some of us poors fold our clothes at the laundromat.