[Barrin92]

> Employees who disagree based on politics and threaten to quit working is new

labour strikes have existed for decades. Primarily for better working conditions of course, but also environmental issues or equal civil rights and so on.

What's new isn't that employees use their bargaining power for political or social causes, it's that they have more success with it in tech or other knowledge sectors. That's a function of there being relatively few workers. The managerial and professional class has become aware of the fact that they're hard to replace, and employers actually can't fire them all, in other words the top 15% have figured out that they don't actually share any goals with the top 0.1% percent, but that they're in quite a unique position to demand what they think is right.

[cmxch]

> The managerial and professional class has become aware of the fact that they're hard to replace, and employers actually can't fire them all

Not so sure they're that hard to replace. There's always the following:

* The unemployed, especially those displaced/affected by offshoring

* Slightly less qualified but trainable

* Those with criminal background issues, but are otherwise well qualified.

All categories would be served well through a staffing firm specializing in handling these kind of issues.