Comment on 'No Contract, No Coffee': Starbucks Workers Launch Five Days of Strikes

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Strikes don’t work in that case. Strikes only make sense in times where there’s a shortage of labor force. But in this case, the opposite is the case: there’s more than enough potential workers, and that’s why wages are low.

The labor market is a market. It has supply (workers) and demand (jobs). High supply --> lower prices (wages). Higher demand --> higher prices (wages). It’s that

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