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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Your boss did not give you vacation days. Your government/union did.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

That's not strictly true. In the US there is in most states NO requirements for paid leave outside of a few protected types. But not vacation or sick. And we also are largely not unionized. We still have time off albeit MUCH less than Europeans and such.

Though I'd argue the norm of having any paid time off is a byproduct of labor/union battles in the past.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're given just enough scraps to avoid mass unionization. That's because the last time it happened we got The New Deal. This time it'll be the Economic Bill of Rights. The leftist platform hasn't changed for 80 years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Would be nice if there were more voices calling for democracy in the workplace. That would change so many things and make concentration of wealth and political corruption much more difficult.

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