Work Reform

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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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America continues to fall behind the rest of the world (discuss.online)

submitted 1 month ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

a decades-long campaign from the most powerful people on earth succeeded feels so similar to blaming the enslaved for not freeing themselves.

Yeah, but those people all received a public education (like I did) and have access to all humanity's knowledge at their fingertips. And they're still profoundly stupid. That's not a good look.

but how are they to know better?

Self education? I know a whole lot more than I did when I stopped having a formal education. I don't think it's right to just assume that people are sheep by default and have to have good educators to be reasonably intelligent. Especially in this day and age. It removes the expectation of personal responsibility that we should have for every adult.