>The first sentence is code for "it's an employer's market"
It's always an employer's market if you let people tell you that it is.
One of the big lies that pervades our culture is that someone is lucky to have a job.
As I said earlier, we have reps here in NJ whose sole job is keep a military base open because of the jobs it supports.
With record unemployment, that's insane. It only happens because people have been suckered into the idea that having a job is some kind of benefit or privilege and those reps are doing them some kind of favor.

We are seeing a few glimmers of hope.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/chicago-teachers-strike-10-19/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/business/gm-strike-uaw-return-to-work/index.html

Labor, like many other groups, has suffered from a lack of inspired leadership.
Woolworth's quickly integrated its lunch counters in the south when black people stopped spending in its stores.
Bus companies jettisoned Jim Crow policies when black people started walking to work.
Those things happened because of inspired leadership.