derek thompson points out in a recent piece, the increase in quits is mostly about low-wage workers switchingaising wages to grab new employees as fast as possible. from the quitter's perspective, that's a job hop. this is all to say the labor market at this moment is about the tightest it has been in the last 20 years, and all of this is giving workers more power than i've seen them wield in my professional life as a journalist, and it is having real tangible consequences. one of them is that more workers are forming unions to protect their interests. today we saw a remarkable scene in buffalo, new york, after three starbucks stores there each voted on whether or not to unionize. as is often the case, almost always the case, the company put up a huge campaign against a union, which included the company's former ceo, howard schultz, showing up and using an ill fated holocaust analogy to describe the company's mission to convince workers not to unionize. today the vote was counted as workers watched on a livestream and they saw their storm become the first company-owned starbucks to unionize i