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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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They're not paying a living wage, they expect you to be available when they want you and to go away when they don't, and they give you hideous workloads. They rob you of dignity, cheat you money, and deprive you of benefits. "No one wants to work anymore." Fucking bullshit.
"Nobody wants to work" always has the unspoken second part, "for what I want to pay."
It's super interesting to me that "not wanting to work" is a bad thing. I talk to a lot of boomers who doesn't understand how younger people don't want to work.
Well you got brainwashed into a 40+ hour work week, and you were able to buy a house for $5000 and were able to support 4 children and a stay at home wife. A 20 year old now knows that they will never own a house and don't have time for a family because they need 2 jobs to buy something that wasn't made by slaves in a temu factory.
Lol I said this to a cashier once when she apologized for my wait (IDC tbh I saw they were busy and tempered my expectations). She said, "nobody wants to work anymore!" And I asked her, "of course they don't, nobody wants to be at a David's Bridal at 11am on a Saturday. Do YOU want to be here, working, right now??" And she was Gobsmacked lmao. I wasn't mean to her or anything. She just. Couldn't fathom it. So odd.
I've had so many shitty managers, including three millennials. People literally cant treat employees like humans and just a productivity machine. I worked jobs both at big corps and small mom and pop stores and they are all the same
I have a problem with hierarchy honestly. It goes deeper than just not like capitalism or communism or monarchism or whatever.
Hierarchy is at the root of so many of our problems as a species.