> what happened is Ford needed to hire a lot of people so the price of labor went up through supply and demand This is the best way to drive up salaries, as it

> what happened is Ford needed to hire a lot of people so the price of labor went up through supply and demand This is the best way to drive up salaries, as it's closely tied to demand. Just as Silicon Valley salaries and benefits - some of the best in the world, from non-institutionalised sources, anyway - were produced via competition, and not via strikes.