Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay
Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 9 months agoYou shouldn’t have to take a cut in pay for this. Productivity has increased and the benefits of the productivity increase has only gone to the ultra wealthy.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
But negotiating only for higher wages per hour and lower hours as a package deal could make it harder to get either. It probably depends employer to employer, but doing both at the same time would be hard to make them do.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Which is why we need to build class solidarity, unions, and strike. A hundred years ago, people fought for everything they could get. They didn’t say “safe working conditions or a 40h work week.” They said, “we want all we can get.”
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yes that’d be good. But I still don’t see the advantage of only talking about these as a package deal.
hark@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you start from a compromised position you will only get less.