Why You Work So Hard For Less - American Workers Have Been Royally Screwed.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Mother Jones has an article about "All Work No Pay:----". Not sure how to link. Workers should be livid.

[Warpy]

1. All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-hours

Google is your friend. And yes, this article should piss all of us off. Even doctors have faced a huge speedup as MBAs have started to run healthcare like they run factories and grocery store corporations.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Thanks For Linking - I Was Not Sure How To Access It

It explains everything and a lot of people should read it. Doing more with less came out as soon as Reagan instigated all the cuts. I knew it was bull where I worked at DOL. Over time I learned how to do less with less until I could get the H out which I did in 1998. Only a few days after I left I quit grinding my teeth. I had to cap every single tooth because I was down to gums.

[Dawson Leery]

2. Union protections are what is needed.

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. Polls Show People Are Pro Union - But They Vote Anti Union And Anti Labor

[deurbano]

5. At my husband's place of business, the new owners seem to be making more people "management"

... so they don't have to pay overtime.

He's at work at all hours, now... including weekends... and they call at home and when we are on vacation... Now he has to do spreadsheets, justify every penny, take endless meetings (etc.), while STILL having to do all the production (involving actual physical labor) he did before. When someone "under" him takes time off, he has to do that work, too. He has been there for years and feels there is little recourse. (He's over 50..) They think all the workers who were there at the time of the sale are overpaid. The marketing of the product is much more valued than the making of the product. It sucks. (And very negatively impacts the whole family.)

This country has gone in a dangerously wrong direction. Can union protections help this kind of "management" arrangement? Or do we also need new labor laws to keep up with the evolving efforts to circumvent the old ones?

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. I Retired In 1998. It Is Much Worse Than I Have Ever Seen It.

Anti Unionism is tied into a lot of other complex attitudes about work and labor. Until the public begins to accept unionism again as necessary and government's role in regulating employer activity when it comes to the treatment of workers matters will only get worse. I do not know how we change things.

FYI what is happening to your husband is very common just about everywhere I look. What they are doing is wage theft. reclassification is the most common. Another way is to declare workers independent contractors.

Union protections bleed into all other parts of the economy and that is why they are so under attack. And public workers are under even more severe attack because of unique protections public workers have.

The never media will never cover what is going on in Europe. The crash was a set up for Europe. By bankrupting them the billionaire syndicate could force big labor changes. Europe had the most stringent protections for workers on the planet. It was not "work at will" there like it is here in the US. Workers had rights and employers could not fire willy nilly. CEO pay in most case was capped. Norway is a good example of capped pay.

It is too complex to get into it hear but the bankster syndicate found a way to compromise Europe and install austerity that only benefits the international banks. That is what the GOP is up to here. Using billionaire syndicates, they are trying to reduce the expectations of workers. More work and stagnant pay. Higher production that goes to the CEO class.

The article in this post spells things out exactly like they are in a very big way. So unless workers revolt and demand regulation by electing pro worker legislators nothing will change except for the worst.

I refer you to Youtube - search "FDR Second Bill Of Rights" or "FDR Second Economic Bill Of Rights" ' His final speech in 1947.

[Zax2me]

6. Think where we would be without President Obama.

Things could really be a lot worse. To put a good spin on it.

[Occulus]

8. "It could be worse" is the shackle which chains change for the better.