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The unions that won us the 40 hour workweek and weekends, among many other significant worker protections, lost political power in the 90s when the democrats tr
by cwkoss 4y ago
The unions that won us the 40 hour workweek and weekends, among many other significant worker protections, lost political power in the 90s when the democrats transitioned to neoliberalism.
- asdff 4y agoIt's so sad how unions were demonized in recent history. Even on HN I see a lot of commenters making that tired old "lazy union worker" argument come out of the woodwork with any unionization thread. Like, why the hell would you not want to collectively bargain? You really think you have more leverage with your employer as an individual? What negotiation book taught you that strategy, the one called "what not to do"? Its always ironic seeing threads about how software engineers are fed up with stupid corporate stuff, like the interview song and dance or whatever else, then fail to see that by unionizing, software engineers could dramatically change how the entire industry works, and by continuing to just jump ship in hopes of finding better pastures they perpetuate this broken system that just finds another worker to exploit.
- missedthecue 4y agoAccording to the Atlantic, religion gave us weekends and the five day work week https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/where-the-five-day-workweek-came-from/378870/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/where-t...