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Where are you based? Are you sure unions aren't the reason you have these benefits?
by bengale 8y ago
Where are you based? Are you sure unions aren't the reason you have these benefits?
- skrebbel 8y agoI bet they are (Netherlands). I seriously don't get how anyone can interpret my comments on this thread as sceptical about unionization.
- awiesenhofer 8y agoHow are you inferring that from GPs comments? He just couldn't believe that the US doesn't have mandated parental leave - you know, like the rest of the world.
- awiesenhofer 8y agoHe could live almost anywhere in the world: "The United States, Suriname, Papua New Guinea, and several island countries in the Pacific Ocean are the only countries that do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
- yostrovs 8y agoGlad to know that North Korea, Guatemala, Sudan, and South Sudan are considerate enough to provide paid maternity leave.
- OtterCoder 8y ago> North Korea That's not terribly surprising, fascist ideologies are typically very family-centric, to the point of actual Darwinism/eugenics. It's one more reason why I don't think the rising, bipartisan, hyper-capitalist, reactionary tide in the US can be accurately called fascism. It's a different creature in a lot of ways.
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- Khol 8y agoWhilst it's likely that from a historical perspective unions (or other collective action) fought for rights for workers, in many (most?) modern societies there is now legal basis for them. I have found myself in the same position as the parent as a non-US resident who ended up in discussions where the assumptions made by those from the US and those not from the US about the rights of workers are so wildly different it stalls the conversation.
- brennebeck 8y agoLikely EU or UK, if I had to guess. Maybe CA.