A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking The fight for shorter hours can unify workers everywhere. by Sarah Jaffe, In These Times, April 2, 2024 https://inthesetimes.com/article/unions-4-day-work-week-uaw-covid-strike-demands-labor
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM Dayne Goodwin via groups.io <daynegoodwin= [email protected]> wrote: > Shawn Fain, Jacobin, March 15 > https://jacobin.com/2024/03/shawn-fain-thirty-two-hour-workweek-speech > > *On Thursday, March 14, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders introduced a Senate > bill that would mandate a standard thirty-two-hour workweek with no loss in > pay. The same day, Sanders chaired a hearing of the Senate Health, > Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to discuss the legislation; among > those invited to speak was United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain. We > here provide Fain’s remarks in full; the transcript has been lightly edited > for clarity.* > . . . > It’s sad to say that in 1933, the US Senate passed legislation to > establish the thirty-hour workweek, but due to intense corporate > opposition, that legislation failed. But in 1940, President Franklin Delano > Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act establishing a forty-hour > workweek — eighty-four years ago. Eighty-four years ago, the forty-hour > week was established. Since then, we’ve had a 400 percent increase in > productivity, but nothing’s changed. > > That was why, in our Big Three campaign and our stand-up strike, we raised > the flag for a thirty-two-hour workweek. This isn’t just a union issue, > contrary to what some people want to talk about. This is a working-class > issue. That’s why 75 percent of Americans stood with us in our contract > fight. Because they’re all living the same reality. > . . . > Our union is going to continue to fight for the right of working-class > people to take back their lives and take back their time. We ask you to > stand up with the American workers and support us in that mission. > # # # > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29792): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29792 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105017805/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
