Why does it feel like it’s only ever Bernie Sanders that is pushing for life improvements.
Cause he's one of the few that actually give a shit. Its why the DNC did everything in their power to scuttle his primary run. Can't have a president that actually wants to help the common American cause then the corporate overlords might lose their stranglehold on them.
TL;DR: Corruption and capitalism
Any kind of socialism (even relatively-speaking weak social democrats like Bernie) is severely underrepresented in US politics due to the influence of private money/capital in the government and in elections. The two party system/first past the post voting doesn't help matters either.
The people with money actively want to supress socialism by any means necessary. Look at Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare if you want an example in US history that still affects us today.
Also Reagan with deregulation and Bill Clinton with "triangulation" (effectively becoming more economically right wing by finding the middle ground between right and left, while the right is constantly pushing right. See: the Ratchet Effect)
Bernie is one of the extremely few principled politicians who doesn't take corporate money, but he also lacks power as he is one person.
Any kind of socialism (even relatively-speaking weak social democrats like Bernie)
This move is not socialism and calling it socialism makes it harder to pass in America.
If you're in a gun fight, don't start tossing your opponent ammunition.
Thank you
We've already proven that idiots don't understand the words they parrot, so attaching it to one they hate is just stupid.
Same thing with shit like vaccines and autism. Don't even put the two in the same sentence. It's not even worth legitimizing the bullshit the handlers put out there
Why does it feel like it's only ever Bernie Sanders that is pushing to bring the US inline with Europe?
That’s simply not possible, I need my employees to be working more hours, not less. Last year I could barely afford my sailing trip to Aruba. If such a law passes I’m going to have to fire some people for sure or raise rents on my tenants.
I know this is sarcastic but I can’t help read it in my literal bosses voice, who didn’t give us Christmas bonuses but did fix the sail on his yacht immediately after a storm for like £20k or some bs
Yeah even knowing full well it was sarcasm couldn't help but hear it in the voice of my boss, who is so delusional they constantly talk about rolling back my department, the only one that actually makes money, cause our wages are too expensive (spoilers, they aren't, 1/10th of our staff is on food stamps but our boss can afford a new luxury car.)
You've already sacrificed so much, we can't possibly ask you to sacrifice anymore. God, we've been so selfish talking about barely being able to afford rent or food to eat, when really we should've been thinking about how you felt about the whole thing. I'm so sorry we've inconvenienced you in any way. You know, go ahead and skip paying me for a bit and take that submarine trip on OceanGate you've always wanted to do, everyone has been talking so much about it lately.
This goes against what Republicans want. They're literally removing child labor laws so kids can get into the work force while they're in middle school. Start a kid working at 12 years old and they can get about 50 years of labor out of them. Chances are that kid will be working 60-70 years and won't be able to retire.
I got a job at 16 and worked part time through college and have been full time since. 1/3 of my adult life (6 years) was doing 60 hour weeks. I'm by no means the most responsible with my finances but I don't buy tons of frivolous stuff. Haven't been on a real vacation since 2014. Haven't taken off unless I've gotten sick (I caught COVID 3 times).
I don't expect to be able to retire. I expect to starve to death when I can no longer work.
For like 10 years my work didn't want to pay as many pharmacist hours so offered 30 hour full time roles for the slower stores. I rode that wave as long as I could. It's a really stressful job, but at 30 hours it felt like I had a rough job. At 40+ hours it feels like I have a rough life. I'm fully in support of this 32 hour workweek. Those extra few hours won back can be magical for physical health, mental health, hobbies. I even got an extra degree in computer science.
I tell people time and time again that work starts at 9 and end at 3pm, everything after is shuffling paper and killing time.
But what about the poor billionaires?
"I've got one hobby space program yes, but what about second hobby space program?"
Unfortunately, thanks to Democrats and Republicans, the four-day work week is an impossibility in the USA.
Democrats and Republicans
read: Corporations
This would DOUBLE my effective free time. It would improve my life so much.
I'm hoping the push for a 32 hour week gains enough traction that we could actually feasibly negotiate a 9-day sprint (2 week period) as the "middle ground", at least until the next wave of negotiations pushes further.
Gimme every other monday off, that way I'm always working toward either a long weekend or an early weekend
I just negotiated one Monday a month off and it's nice. Two would be better, of course. Three day weekends should be standard. It's like that meme said: "One day for chores/errands, one to day to socialize, one day to stay in bed all day like you've got some Victorian wasting sickness."
Dude should have run on this vs the the 15 dollar minimum wage.
This would have garnered him more support. I would have door knocked for the old bastard.
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Do you all have the Congress app installed on your phone?
Can you name your House of Representative member?
Can you name your Senators?
This will go nowhere the same way that smart gun control went nowhere, despite the vast majority of the citizenship wanting it, despite even after a room full of elementary school kids were killed. Lobbying stops what the vast majority of the citizenry want.
The only way to affect change is to lobby Congress, that's what the corporations do. Corporations lobby Congress, so you have to as well.
You need to get involved, you have to let your Representative and your Senators know that you want a four-day work week. You should even throw some donation money their way for their next election cycle.
Just commenting about it on an Internet forum isn't enough. Just waiting for somebody else to do the work isn't enough.
You are the citizen.
While I like this idea, this is not the argument union leadership should be making to achieve this goal:
Our union's membership is clearly fed up with living paycheck-to-paycheck while the corporate elite and billionaire class continue to make out like bandits," said Fain in a statement last week. "The Big Three have been breaking the bank while we have been breaking our backs
A change in hours does nothing to address pay discrepancies and you need to pick one lane and fight for it and get it, then attack the other direction.
Man saying two sentences about something is a pretty low bar to "champion" it.
While I love this idea and Bernie... There's no fucking way that'll happen.
Would this include a 25% increase to hourly minimums? Because otherwise it only benefits salaried employees.
And what about workers who are paid by productivity and not time? Salespersons on commission, servers receiving tips, ride-share drivers?
I'm all for a 32-hour work-week; that's what I have myself. But let's not pretend this would be enough, or that the main beneficiaries are he working class.
"No loss in pay" as far as I can interpret it would mean getting paid the same for working 32 hours as you would have for working 40, yes
The autoworkers union the article refers to as an example is seeking a 46% pay rise to coincide with the transition to 32 hours.
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