“Outside of collective bargaining how do laborers best sell their labor.”
Improve what they have to offer.
The problem is there are too many people expecting good pay for lousy work. If the market needs 10,000 workers to do what pretty much anyone can do with a few minutes’ orientation, and there’s 50,000 people wanting to do those jobs, and 10,000 of those people are willing to take minimum wage for that work, then either 40,000 people need to either figure out how to get paid less, improve their ability so they can perform jobs warranting higher pay, move, or STFU and be thankful for any opportunity that opens for them.
Collective bargaining doesn’t work in this case because there’s nothing to bargain for: if they all quit, McD’s et al just put out “Hiring” signs and get back to normal a couple days later with new staff.
“Collective bargaining doesn’t work in this case because there’s nothing to bargain for: if they all quit, McD’s et al just put out “Hiring” signs and get back to normal a couple days later with new staff.”
Unless they unionize.
The article said that was a possibility.