by Chris Black
Covid lockdowns/state subsidies allowed people to pay off debt and save money. This combined with two years of little to no immigration has given workers leverage to unionize, ask for better pay, and decent treatment.
The problem is the boss doesn’t want to pay, and they can’t inflate all your savings away or bring scab labor across the border fast enough to fix this right in the short term.
A @BankofAmerica executive stated that “we hope” working Americans will lose leverage in the labor market in a recent private memo obtained by The Intercept. t.co/g6Pyhqm5uz
— The Intercept (@theintercept) July 30, 2022
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