Forum Post: Fight for mandatory 6 week work break for all in America!!
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 8:53 p.m. EST by usaworktomuch
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Fight for - 3 - day weekends; 6 weeks work break for all - make it LAW!! Why is Americans working more now then ever in it's entire HISTORY?!? Limit the number of hours people work during the week. Work to Live not Live to Work!!
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-07/opinion/rushkoff.jobs.obsolete_1_toll-collectors-robots-jobs?_s=PM:OPINION
Most Americans rent out their labors, therefore capitalism does not reward them with their own productivity gains. These gains are harvested by the owners of productivity, business owners and self-employed.
I too ask with all the huge productivity gains we've made, why aren't we ALL working 20 to 25 hours per week and spending more time playing with our children and going to the beach?
But I don't think shorter workweeks can be, nor should be mandated by law.
If we cont on the road we are on this is what will happen: If we don't stop Corporate America - there will be 1 day weekends;
NO VACATION time;
and 70-80 hour work weeks!!!! (trust me - i worked in the thick of copr America)
Good idea, but the demand is way too small
Working hours are already longer than they were forty years ago. ... READ an article by Juliet B. Schor - THE OVERWORKED AMERICAN
<http://users.ipfw.edu/ruflethe/american.html>
You can have a twelve month work break, then start over again and again.
LOL.. love the facetiousness - but I really feel that the path we are on is SCARY!!! If we don;t stop it now - everyone will be working a 70/80 hour work week!!