#labor relations

you feed your surplus cucumbers to your pigs or goats, and then you slaughter your animals when there isn't a surplus of food.

March 25, 1911 was the date of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. We marked the centennial a few years ago here on Travalanche, along with the fact that there was an off-Broadway play up about it at the time. This year we have timely and terrifying reason to bring it up again. It’s not a complicated story. The place was a garment factory, located on the top three floors of a ten story…

Not really, no.

I think the fundamental change has been a longer-term post-Great Recession tightening of the labor market that started around 2016 and (with the exception of a brief blip during the lockdown) has continued to the present, along with even longer-term changes in public attitudes about unions and inequality.

I would argue that the changes in union leadership and the increases in strikes and organizing drives we've seen recently are essentially a lagging response to that shift in worker leverage vis-a-vis the bosses.

I was reading about the John Deere strike and they linked to this cool site compiling labor actions around the country: