As part of his Labor Day message to workers in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday re-upped his call for the establishment of a 20% cut to the workweek with no loss in pay—an idea he said is “not radical” given the enormous productivity gains over recent decades that have resulted in massive profits for corporations but scraps for employees and the working class.
“It’s time for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay,” Sanders wrote in a Guardian op-ed as he cited a 480% increase in worker productivity since the 40-hour workweek was first established in 1940.
“It’s time,” he continued, “that working families were able to take advantage of the increased productivity that new technologies provide so that they can enjoy more leisure time, family time, educational and cultural opportunities—and less stress.”
I’m old enough to know what the end goal of this is, corporations cutting peoples hours to “trim the fat” and getting away with it like always
Only a complete idiot actually believes this crap. Companies are not going to keep your wages if they can cut them, and they will. So a 32 hour work week will do absolutely nothing but reduce take home pay in the end
This is the same as Obama forcing workers to get 2 jobs just to make ends meet and this is all these policies wind up doing, giving less to the people and taking away more from them
That is why we need unions.
That’s what people keep missing, astonishingly.