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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.
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- 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.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- 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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Yaaaay a bill that'll go nowhere and die on the floor, just so the dems can claim they're trying to help to proles.
Write the bills ahead of time, so that when a favourable Congress is formed you don't have to spend more time putting it together from scratch.
Min wage should also be attached to inflation. Also, "bills going nowhere" didn't stop Project 2025, Heritage Foundation fascists and Republican abortion ban projects from persistently marching forward.
Who is "you"? I don't think the democrats are here. They don't give a shit.
Congress, campaigns, non-profits and advocacy organizations.
Because Democrats are on the same team as Republicans, and it's not ours. And we're just as ineffective, consumed by inertia.
So we should be sad and do nothing and shame anyone who tries something doomed to fail anyway.
No we should be organizing on a much grander scale.
Goddamn lemmy eats up that both sides bullshit so hard.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Yes yes we all know you're an accelerationist. Your input is useless as always.
Was talking about social media, but my fault for not being more clear.
Yes, people are generally in touch with reality on this topic.
Y'all ain't even have a basic understanding of civics much less reality.
Less minimum wage should be tied to inflation, more minimum wage should be tied to congressional salary. (Some multiplier, because they do need to live in two places)
The minimum wage and congressional salary should be the same thing.
I'd prefer tying the salary (including bonuses, assets, and everything) to the lowest paid wages in the nation. The greater the difference, the lower the public salary; the smaller the difference, the higher.
Or ditch the minimum wage and implement a Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the Federal level (or State level!!). If there’s UBI, the minimum wage doesn’t have to be there which technically could make labor more competitive in general, plus you don’t have to rely on your job to get your basic needs met.
Well, I'd prefer they do something just to say they're trying than the usual tactic of not even trying because they've already decided they don't have enough votes.
PR to get votes.