Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Summary of what I understood:

Florida work force: 27% born in foreign countries
Florida farm workers: 60% born in foreign countries
Florida state: eager to persecute immigrants

Proposal:

allow child labour for unlimited hours, if home schooled or distance learning
allow 30 hours per week during study sessions
allow 6 days of consecutive work
allow work during school hours
allow early and late work, even if school next day
allow more than 8 hours per day, even if school next day

That seems 19th century stuff. Back then, in the bad old times, anarchists shot politcians and workers had street battles with cops over this kind of minor issues.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

You know those kids are pretty small as well, I'm sure they can work with chimeys a lot better than an adult.

[+] [email protected] -52 points 4 days ago (2 children)

*labor. Not lab our.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

"Not lab our" isn't a complete sentence. Please conform to all rigid forms of prescriptivist communication if you'd like to continue nitpicking stupid shit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, nice to remember. :) I'm used to speaking and writing UK English - I learnt it that way and it became a habit. (In the UK, they write colour intead of color, labour instead of labor, tyre instead of tire, grey instead of gray, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yep, British English got these words from Norman French. In the 20th Century, Webster's reforms attempted to simplify American English and lost a bunch of these silent vowels.