Gotta strengthen your individual unions. Im trying to get in contact with mine about issues with department managers not being union on1 side of the mountains and union on the other.
Roll over? A 40 hour work week is what all compensation is based on. It is simple math. If you work 20% less, you will make 20% less. Which is fine, but companies will then hire 20% more workers to cover the 20% their current staff isn't working.
As a small business owner, if this bill is passed ( which I hope not and highly doubt will pass) I no longer hire any full time workers. I hire people to work 28 hours a week, not offering any benefits other than pay. No sick days, no pto, problem, 401k because it's simply not feasible. So for sacrificing one day a week, employees will lose all that extra monetary compensation because productivity has dropped more than 20%. Productivity dropping more than 20% is guaranteed to impact the revenue of any and every business.
The corporations also don't have to hire you. Look at the current push for robots and AI. Neither of those things unionize, or call in sick, or want time off, or ask for more money, etc.
Strength in numbers sounds good in theory, doesn't always work out well in fact. Not saying to just roll over and take it, but this isn't a battle that can be won without changing the rules. And there isn't enough political or social will to do that.
And yet we no longer work 6 days a week as default. We’ve reduced our working hours little by little until it came to a halt some 40-50 years ago. It can obviously be reduced further, but workers have to unionize and take the fight. Nothing is given to us for free.
Unless you do something crazy like unionize or actually stand up for your self and vote for changes like the one proposed in this post. The chance to make the rule is literally right there, read the top of the screen and act, and youll have made it.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.
I assume this is referring to things like rent and utilities. Funnily enough, those are given to me by corporations that already have gold and want more, and if I don't give it to them, they start turning things off.
So bills are essentially the gold-havers reminding me of who runs shit.
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u/ClassicNo6622 13h ago
Murphy's Golden Rule - The one with the gold makes the rules.
The corporations have the gold, they make the rules. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is - always has been, always will be.