Originally Posted by
vertical_doug
I was thinking about the serology tests, and if you have the antigens/antibodies you are allowed to go back to work. Fed Gov Bullard is proposing something like this. This introduces an interesting dynamic to the labor market. If I am a minimum wage employee at Amazon, Walmart, a restaurant doing take out, and I have the antibody test, I would demand a raise. It is of incremental benefit to the employer. You are competing in a reduced labor market, a takeaway shop with all cooks being immune is no longer a risk of contaminating the food etc. It's be a marketing boon. I am sure you are immediately employable. Since many corporations refuse to allow unionism, this shifts the negotiating power back to you. You are by default part of a select union.. For large parts of the country not experiencing clusters, this may not be an issue, but for New York, Detroit and other urban areas, definitely an issue.