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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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I feel like part of this needs to address the common claim that the businesses in question will go bankrupt as a result of the increases in pay for labor.
It's great that unions increase pay. But that hasn't been the argument I've heard against unions. It's that increasing the pay will tank the company and everyone would shortly be out of work. Which I don't believe at all, but that's the common argument against unions
If your business model is ruined by fair wages, your business plan sucks and deserves bankruptcy.
and then they pull out the "you'll kill small businesses tho"
Society doesn't owe these people a business on the back of unsustainable underpaid labour.
Fuck em