The Power of Soft Assets in the Labor Struggle

labor constantly has to fight for its survival is its softness that like if you're an audio auto plant you don't control the price of steel right because you buy it from someone else. But your workers well you have a lot more power than them and the more costs you can push onto them the more that you can make them do with less. The fundamental strategy is to harden yourself so that you are not treated as you know completely fungible by other people. It truly is a soft they see it as a soft cost that they can reduce  and the point of striking is to make it a hard cost to them again to say hey these unions we've been around for a hundred