Get your flares out and grow sideburns... the "greedy worker" myth is back from the 1970s... here's why 1/ Brexit means a shortage of precarious workers... manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-…
2/ Furlough but more importantly the relaxation of coercion in the benefit system has made people confident to turn down jobs on crap wages... let's see how popular Sunak is when he tries to reverse that...
3/ Lockdown acted as a circuit breaker - two years worth of undergraduates and 6th formers reassessing their life choices ...
4/ ... so now small the businesses who typically hire precarious workers can't find the staff... it's particularly acute in big cities where housing is tight ...
5/ it's a huge opportunity for Labour and the trade unions. Economics 101 says we need the wage share of the economy to rise. A summer unionisation drive of precarious work can make that happen...
6/ ... and that's where the "greedy worker" myth comes in... wherever workers gain market power to bargain wages upwards expect a Tory propaganda drive against wage rises.. that's one "levelling up" they can't stand...
7/ They'll start panicking about inflation - the Telegraph types already clutching their pearls about it - so say it loud: we need inflation. The target's symmetrical around 2% so plenty of room for sustained overshoot k be
8/ inflation spikes are always a moment of redistribution ... who gets what is a matter for class struggle ... so let's have a summer of organising. ✊🏼
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