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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. This country just voted to move in the opposite direction of this. We voted for less worker rights. Less power for the average person.

At this point, we'll need to start utilizing our 2nd amendment right if we want to get anything better than what we have. People died to give us the 40 hour work week. Looks like that's going to have to happen again for any further improvements.

Smarter countries did it without the bloodshed. America isn't that smart.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

My dipshit coworkers think trump will actually be good for unions. Mfers.

I'd like to add that 32 hour weeks is pretty much purely something that works for white collar work. It's considerably harder to implement in blue collar settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Is the reason it wont work in blue collar settings that it'll inflate prices of stuff too high? Possible making the country fall back in a global stance on pricing on exports, etc (not competitive)?

Only other reason I can see is if they need people at the workplace 24/7, but they usually hire more people to make that schedule work (which in return ig increases prices of whatever they are producing).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

Not "won't work". Considerably harder. Big difference. There's companies who have successfully implemented it in blue collar jobs.

But more put simple, it's that unlike white collar, output has a direct relationship with how many hours are worked, up to probably nearly 50, more or less depending on the job.

So, in practice it turned out that slower service was one of the largest problems with it.

Half of the benefit issue costs would go away with universal healthcare anyways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

The mental gymnastics required to believe that hurt my brain.