Now pull yourself out of the 1800's and ask that question of the face of further automation and replacement of employees by 'intelligent' machines.
Workers rights are just a bullshit statement of the same classification as 'landowner rights'. Human rights should be paramount regardless if you have a job or not.
But to have these rights, you must organize and concentrate this power or you'll just be scattered by the owners of capital that have already concentrated their power highly effectively.
By the workers, not the owners of capital. That is justified authority.