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Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay
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Even 32 hours a week with a proportional decrease in pay would be a huge improvement.
You 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.
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.
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."
Yes that'd be good. But I still don't see the advantage of only talking about these as a package deal.
If you start from a compromised position you will only get less.
How does putting these as separate line items in negations compromise the position?
Because it's easier to pick them apart separately. Divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book.
Yeah not for everyone. I'm thinking higher paying areas like technology and programming where pay is high but people are getting really burned out.
Ugh. I once did some independent programming and the guy insisted I do it in front of him because it involved his proprietary data. So much griping about the time I spent looking at documentation or referring to coding assistance sites like Stack Overflow. I quit on day two.
Honestly as a mid-career IT person, I'd take a 30-40% cut for that extra day without a second of hesitation.