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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Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never. Amazon institutes slavery-like conditions, while people keep taking those jobs voluntarily. The same people then buy into BS propaganda about unions bad, so they don't even have a union in that voluntarily concentration camp.

Some techies who work from home, or walk dogs for living, or take money from parents, or whatever, then constantly circle-jerk on lemmy/reddit/(formerly)twitter about how they'll eat the rich. While virtually doing absolutely utterly nothing.

So the answer is never.

[Btw, posting trump bad memes 5 times a day on a platform that probably votes dems 99.9% isn't doing anything]

You wanna know what it means to be doing something? Read Lenin's biography.

If you're not in exile like Snowden, not dead like Navalny, not rotting in prison like Assange, you're not doing enough.

Only when everyone will be ready to go to jail for their vision of the better tomorrow will they not be able to jail you individually and instead will have to change the system.

So, start a local riot group, prepare for two years, kidnap Bezos, sign him up as an Amazon contractor and with a gun pointed to his head make him work the job for 5 weeks.

In the meantime, I will be living in a functioning developed country with a democratically elected government that has long time ago instituted a minimum wage high enough for you to comfortably live off it. I don't need to eat the rich. I just wish less people would vote far right.