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Exactly right. The "workaround" would never have worked with a strong labour union.

• SoftTalker 3y ago
  But in that case you'd be paying 1.5x more for asparagus.
  • diffeomorphism 3y ago
    Where are you getting 1.5x from? The article is about 48 vs 40 hours. And that is just for the labor cost part of the price, while logistics, quality control, marketing,... stay fixed. So 1.2x would already be a very generous upper estimate.
  • kennywinker 3y ago
    I really think that 1.5x is a small price to pay to know that nobody suffered to produce this. I also think that if you believe the price of asparagus is 100% farm labour, you’re mistaken.
• slillibri 3y ago
  Like the United Farm Workers, founded by this guy named Cesar Chavez in 1962?