‘Working Class People Aren’t Lazy- They’re Fed Up’: UAW President Advocates For 32-Hour Work Week
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2024
- During a Senate Health Committee on Thursday, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain gave opening remarks about the potential benefits of a 32-hour work week.
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How about lowering the retirement age so folks can actually enjoy theirvlives before they are too old and wore out
They want us worn out by retirement age. They're hoping we're dead within 10 years of collecting SS.
They will have to raise it again. Ronald Regan raised it last time to 67 to save it. SS tax needs to be increased.
@@cmontes7961
Yeah and that's bullshit too! It shouldn't be taxed in the 1st place!!
@@cmontes7961Social security tax needs to be increased for millionaires and billionaires.. You stop paying into social security when your Yearly earnings goes above a 145,000... That's complete BS...
@@barrettkettle133 I don't mean ss should be taxed. Your right it shouldn't be. I meant the amount paid by the employee and the employer would need to be increased or raise the cap so the rich pay more or both or the age will need to be raised again.
32 hours with 40 hour pay sounds good to me !
For most Americans, 40-hour pay is pitiful and not enough to keep up.
@@kellyfegerextra day is an extra day to find work
@@kellyfeger extra day is an extra day for people to invest their money or put that money to start a business.
@@Jonathan-du8fs yes or invest their money.
@@Jonathan-du8fsfuck that the extra day is used to have a life balance
The working class will always outnumber the owning class. Solidarity is our only way to wield our power.
Unfortunately, the working class falls for their culture wars or divide and conquer games.
Nailed it, I work two jobs just too survive
Sorry, but Biden and more government ultimately makes things worse. First thing, get leftist commies out, then let’s talk because you will likely not need two jobs.
@@PaineStakingTruth Labor organization is left wing, genius.
@@northuniverseHey watch that...I love my 70 thousand dollar a year "union pension"😅
@@northuniverseMy bad..
I can get you a job at fedec ground if you're interested. You can make minimum 4k a month
Democrats fighting for the working class. 🙏
We're trying
No Shawn fain is fighting for the working class. Bernie sanders and Shawn Fain are not the democratic. Only a fool would believe they represent the democratic party.
No they are promoting yet another crazy idea that won’t work just like the Biden bill and the open borders. This bill promotes lazy people to only do 75 percent of their normal work for the same amount. People will abuse this entirely as have illegals at our border
Ok, so you work 32 hours and get paid for 40. That's 8 hours of non production.
I have 127 employees. If I had to pay 127 people 8 hours of time they didn't work... that's over 1000 hours a week of unproductive time.
Two things will happen: I will fire employees and raise prices.
I will downsize to profitability.
My salary will be fine. My business will still be profitable, and when I fire them I will hand them a picture of Sanders.
One side: The auto industry's blaming workers for their problems is ridiculous, particularly with bloated ranks of ridiculously overcompensated management soaking up the cash. Other side: A 32 hour week is ridiculous. The industry will move what's left of it's U S production offshore. Rather quickly, I'm afraid.
It does sound ridiculous but it isn't. That's how much wealth concentration has distorted our norms.
The other thing is that with the US' new protectionist regime(started by Trump, expanded by Biden) it's no longer that easy to offshore. Those companies will have extra tarrifs to pay and extra political and social pressures to contend with
Somebody like you wouldn't last a day on an auto plant line. Big money has been moving jobs out of the country as an assault on workers for years. Stock market greed and profit fueled it. Nobody cared about the family down the street so long as their 401K was going up 10% a year. Were we less happy in the 1950's when each home had one television? I think not.
You definitely aren't thinking that one through...😊 They're not in business to go out of business.. Elon musk already tried it, Built a gigaplant in beijing china, And turned over all his intellectual trade secrets.. And now they own him...😅
Your comment is ridiculous. You obviously haven’t looked at the data.
When I worked for this company that made soda/beer cans, it was a 12hr shift. I ran 10 machines. When my coworker goes to break, I ran 20 machines🤬
Fain for NALC President. He may not know our job, but he fights for workers.
I worked for a savings and loan from 1967 to 1976. Our pay was based on 40 hours but we only worked 36. That left a 4 hour cushion if we ran later with balancing. So really no overtime.
And your point is?
@@magikmycology6660 we were working less than 40 hours but being paid for 40. Also we had a paid one hour lunch. It depends on employer if it is a good job to take. I had no experience and had paid on the job training. You learn to assess a job without government intervention.
The shrinkflation of labor...
Shawn Fain!! For President of the United States!!
Shawn Fain 2028 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
FACTS!!!
I was overworked and have permanent lung damage cause of it. Over 60 hours a week for years. Will never work that many hours again, not that it would be possible anyway.
This is good from an economic point of view as well. Employees with good paying jobs, disposable income and free time are GREAT consumers.
People are exhausted and worn out from being worked to death. I probably agree with Bernie on nothing but I agree with this.
They should try driving truck. Were getting 90s wages wtf!!!!! I wish i would have been a auto worker. Wawawa
imaging stocking shelves for a busy grocery store. back breaking, demanding work, minimum wage, no benefits, no retirement, 4+ bosses a day, understaffed working environment, broken equipment, chaotic work schedule, and looked at by society as lowest level or non-existent
The working class keeps fighting amongst ourselves over who deserves what, but we should be working together to fight against the top. WE, THE WORKERS, are what makes everything run! They are profiting off of our labor and giving us pennies on the dollar.
There are more of us than there are them. They wouldn't have any profits without us and we should remind them of that.
If funny how people who value others so little can’t think of how beneficial something like this would be for everyone. Life has far more meaning than to spend it wasting away at a job that will replace you in a heartbeat the second you fall behind even slightly in productivity. And spare me the “your generation is so lazy” bullshit, that argument is tired and done. I’ve worked 2-3 jobs over the course of my 26 years in the workforce. I’ve worked jobs where the norm was 60-80 hours a week expected, 100 if shit really hit the fan. I’ve worked 7 days a week for years without the benefit of vacation time (employer didn’t offer it and wasn’t mandated to offer it) and I’m pretty normal for my generation. The old paradigm and norms need to die, just like the old farts who can’t see past their profit margins. Employees are getting fed up with being abused as little more than slaves at their jobs and barely make more than what their parents did some 20-40 years prior. I can remember, in my area, where $45k was really good pay and you could easily afford a decent life for your family. Now, I’m making 6 figures and while I don’t struggle by any means, I’m also just like the rest of my coworkers who are a few paychecks away from being homeless. The power has shifted far too much in favor of employers.
This! We are given the illusion of freedom, but every single one of us are nothing but wage slaves to them. Low wages, bare minimum benefits, and working 60+ hours and/or multiple jobs is all meant to keep us exhausted so that we are too tired to fight back and we stay in line.
Time to fight the slave system and get sanders plan passed
Ok, so if production is cut, cost of goods will go up. If more OVERTIME is paid... cost is passed on to the consumer.
@@Nick84525 Lmao, what happens when production is cut?
@@youtubesucks1499 that doesn't matter
This will just promote being lazy all over again. When people realize they are getting paid the same for 25 percent less work they will abuse it.
I like the idea.
Most lazy, clueless, and entitled people do...
@@magikmycology6660funny how you don’t know someone and assume they’re lazy, clueless, or entitled because the value of a person, to you and people like you, is what they bring to the economy instead of valuing them for being a person.
@@magikmycology6660 In 2008, American workers bailed out the auto industry and then worked hard to restore it. The Big Three expected a handout from the American people. Speaking of lazy and entitled.
No person should have to live to work. I have been working full time since I was 15 years old. I have also gone to college full time while also working full time. Most doctors offices and other business close at 5pm when I get off so I am forced to use my pto just to see a doctor. I am so sick of spending more time at work than I do at home or in my free time. I feel like I have no time to enjoy life and it has affected my mental health. Just having 1 extra day a week off would help more than words can describe. Please make this happen 🙏🏻
We all need to fight the fucking slave system alongside sanders to get it passed
Ok, and then the doctor offices are reduced to a 32 hour week. They see fewer patients.
The auto repair shop is open 32 hours a week and repair fewer cars.
The electrician works 32 hours a week so I hope you don't lose power on the weekends because you will being pay triple time if you can get one to give up their me time. Lol.
The fireman works 32 hours a week.
Shortages.
Remember... Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is arriving to the world in 10 years. AI will outsmart human by 10,000 times in 20 years.
At one point in history people said:
"Freeing the slaves will destroy our economy"
"Mandating a 40 hour work week will destroy our economy"
They said these things couldn't be done... but here we are.
Thank you Bernie, Mark, Shawn, and all the leaders involved in this bill!
Typically a full time job is a 40 hour work week. If the work week is reduced to 32 then does 32 become full time? Typically less than full time workers dont get Benefits. Benefits include Health care and Vacation times and others i wont list. With this being said is this nothing more than Unions and Employers attempting to cut their bottom line.
It should go without say
Nothing goes without saying in today's society. This requires union reps union lawyers and Congress. When all those get their fees then it's 10 million dollars to charge the companies who in turn pass it on to consumers.
As if oil lobbyists don’t do the exact same thing
@@charlottejones1693 are you a bot? I think your a bot!
@@jeffashcraft2388 bc I speak the truth?
MAYBE...Ai is the new work force.
Lots of robots building cars.
The UAW just buried the big 3 automobile industry.
Then quit penalizing our pension for early retirement .
Why this won’t increase the price of cars at all, right?
Nope not if the government regulated that as well.. PRICE GOUGER
Lazy people. Same people who want a UBI and force doctors to be government employees.
The cost of goods will go up.
Some of you really like your bosses and really despise your families huh?
That’s the only explanation I can think of 🤷♀️
Think for a minute. What happens when production is cut?
So the company pays more for less?
I am in construction, lose 8 hours of production time means the job runs longer, and cost more.
So a company has to hire someone to make up the time or cut production.
If people cry working 8 hours a day.. 😂😂😂😂
Talk about weak.
@@youtubesucks1499 Not quite. Worker productivity has been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and wages have remained stagnant when adjusted for inflation. In other words, companies have been paying less for more.
@@devinmcmanus Nope. Technology has produced more.
Going off the gold standard impacted by purchasing power, printing money 24/7, and technology.
In 15 years we won't need 50% of the population.
@@youtubesucks1499 I agree. Technology has allowed workers to be more productive since the agricultural revolution. Workers produce this technology and operate it. They should get some portion of the productive gains they help create.
This coming from a guy that wears tailored suits and wears expensive watches. I doubt he's not worked over 30 hours a week in quite a long time.
He's nothing more than one of the fat cats he rails against. He stands on the backs of the rank and file and profiting from them. It's okay though, he puts on a good show as he pretends to be above it all. Some people are foolish enough to believe him.
Have to remember that the "suits" count lunches and dinners, cocktail parties, golf games etc. as work !
So you want him to show up on the senate floor in bib overalls and flip-flops? If you're going to claim that anybody not on the shop floor working double shifts is part of the problem then the fat cats have already won.
FDR was a rich son of a B and you know what he did for the working class. You are wrong.
NPC
He's president of the UAW, hope someday he'll be president of USA 🙂
Joke of the day
@@robertforsberg976 god forbid we have a good leader; the country has been in decline for decades, culminating with the actual joke of a fraud reality TV show host as president
Amen!
Go ahead and look what happened to Italy.
Retirement early and short work week.
Just look it up.
I did work in a grocery stocking shelves.was everything you described been there done that.its a entry level job it teaches you to want to do yourself better in life nit stay there and bitch an moan about not making enough.
Fain for President!
What about those of us limited to 70 hours in eight days?
All truckers should be hourly rate and not exempt from overtime. I’m happier where I drive now than I’ve ever been in the 15 years I’ve been driving because I’m hourly and my company pays me overtime. If I’m delayed, I don’t feel the need to be careless with my life or with others’ lives by rushing to get my delivery because I’m on overtime.
American Tax payer Money must stay here for pur children not waste it for other countries
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UAW EXCELLENT UNION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
Bernie Sanders and a union thug - what a chance we have to learn! If you want to see the wonderful country they offer go to Venezuela and look around at all the happy people.
I wouldn't define union workers as the working class - don't you actually have to work to be defined as working class?
You have peasant’s mindset
❤SHAWN❤
It's Friday 3/15/2024
Im at 43.5 hours today, and today is my last day to work. We work every other Saturday at my job. Subaru needs car seats and that's what we do. 80% of our staff doesn't speak English, btw, and most of them are illegal. Working class people who are fed up are replaced with illegal immigrants. A Japanese company, who hires illegal immigrants from Mexico, in the United States, makes massive profits, and nobody seems to notice anything wrong. Can't even buy a house around here because they're taken by Guess who... yeah. They all have gold chains, teeth, and nice cars as well. America 🇺🇸?
Can't wait to see you protest against that greedy corporation!
We all would like to work less but the reality is that we are competing in a global economy. Keep degrading productivity but don’t be surprised when China is eating our lunch.
China has over a billion people compared to the US which has less than 350 million... Not a good comparison at all.. try comparing apples to apples next time... NEXXT
China is having huge economic problems and overworking their people is one of the major causes
Gains in productivity come from automation. We aren’t competing globally, we are competing with machines which is why we don’t need to work as much as before
@@ag8018 so let me get this right! Your saying you want all the old technology back to give you more and harder work?
B.S. have he looked at his own life????😂😂😂😂
Would workers say “gee I wish we HAD worked longer” if China is beating us into submission and then forcing those workers to work much longer?
They have been pushing this for years. 4 day work week is 4 10 hour days. When i was working over 8 was overtime. Before eight was overtime pay. So their pushing to save or take away overtime for workiers ot pay. So after 40 would be counted as o.t. pay. Its about reducing overtime wages.
Middle finger to 40 hours
How is Babbling Bernie still relevant?? The man is clearly insane.
You are
@@Nick84525 Good argument.
@@curtisbryce5096 good because people are working too much. People die from being overworked to death
@@Nick84525 Where is this happening?
@@curtisbryce5096 it's happening in the United Slaves of America
Wow a 32 hour work week. People are lazy and worthless these days.
Bernie certainly is
No, they are tired and want to spend time with their families. It time money stops being this country’s god
@charlottejones1693 so we should pay people more for doing less work? No wonder this country is going down hill lol.
@@crazyfire7783 why not? The CEO’s never fail to give themselves huge bonuses and we dont see any of the profits “trickling down” to the folks who do the actual work and earn them that huge bonus. Dont you deserve to work less and make more? Don’t know anyone in their right minds who would turn that down in order to work 5 days a week for less money and time w loved ones.
Productivity has gone up while wages are stagnating. People are already getting paid less to do more, the solution is obvious.
Oh quit whining.
Workers are letting their fucking voice be heard you got that
If you want people to have more time, stop having houses cost 500,000 and cars costing 35k for a base car that's put together like crap (usually from a UAW plant)
Funny, ever since Biden I've had to work more and afford less.
Maybe you guys should stop voting blue?
Everyone needs to fight the slave system and get sanders bill passed
Stupid idea...they got kids on a 4 day school week too. Stupid stupid stupid
You work 40 hours and get 8 hours in overtime pay. What's stupid about that?
@@northuniverse
Well if you have to ask..you can't add
@@barrettkettle133based on Sander’s proposal he’s right. Or did you not understand what Sanders is proposing? 32 hour week means if you work 40 hours, technically 8 of those hours would be overtime. It’s not a huge difference in pay but it adds up. At a $30/hr rate it’s an extra ~$100 a week
@@northuniverseI’ll tell you. Him 👆🏼
No the non union workers are screwed everyday dont have great health care thats what they need to do give us great health care and we will be fine
Whens this guy going to realize that almost everybody works a 40 hr week🤣 get with the times dude
No they don't..
Fuck 40 hours
This grifter has no idea what working on Wall Street is about.
Passive income is not work.
This just reduces people earnings people would rather turn down overtime then not get enough hours to pay bills what is Bernie thinking. Unless were getting ubi please don't reduce our hours we work because we need the money
🤦🏻 read the bill that’s not how it works
:sighs in trucker:
I might need to join a union
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