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Capitalism: Bourgeoisie all around the world pushes workers rights back
  • It will be possible for the French to work 48 hours a week, 60 with an ‘exceptional authorization’.

    The new proposals will open up the possibility of splitting up the 11 hours of rest between two days of work

    New law will allow companies to set their own overtime rates, circumventing any industry-level agreements.

    Note that France have one of the strongest unions.

    But steady and slowly they'll be pushed back. Steady and slowly, With sometimes one step back, but three steps forward after pause.

    Btw.

    35-hours is “simply a threshold above which overtime or rest days start to kick in”, according to French economist Jean-Marie Perbost.

    French Labour Code is more than 3,500 pages to its latest edition,

    :-) In hope no one can read it :-)

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  • No worries in America. Everything is great here. We even have both our political parties represented by Oligarchs! http://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11330832/low-income-households-cant-afford-basic-needs

    Low-income Americans are experiencing a staggering price hike in housing costs — a change that makes it sometimes impossible to afford basic necessities. A new Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that in 2013, low-income Americans spent a median of $6,897 on housing. In 2014, that rose to $9,178 — the biggest jump in housing spending for the 19-year period of data that Pew studied. The cost of other necessities, like transportation and food, also rose, albeit not as dramatically. 2014 was the first year that Pew studied in which median spending on these three categories was higher than the median income for those in the lower third of income groups. Median housing, food, and transportation expenditures across lower, middle, and higher income level groups from 1996 to 2014. SNIP

  • We even have both our political parties represented by Oligarchs!

    All of big parties represent capitalists in every capitalist country. No need to specially select oligarchs from them. Small ones are no less noxious for society.

  • Currently, it’s customary to begin work at 10 a.m. and break at 2 p.m. for a siesta for as long as three hours, ending the work day at 8 p.m.—a tradition that is at least partially attributable to an effort to escape midday heat. But some studies have shown that Spain’s productivity is lower than that of some of its European counterparts and have suggested that eliminating the siesta would improve the quality of life and raise low birth rates in the country, the Independent reported.

    Inherent quality of capitalists is to lie constanty.

  • fighting against Bourgeoisie? Not enough fun for the Millennials or Generation Y hipsters. They want a healthy standing desk in a cool start-up shop and Fridays off. No need to fight structures they try to become part of … oh well, unless the protest is a cool flash mob …

  • Not enough fun for the Millennials or Generation Y hipsters. They want a healthy standing desk in a cool start-up shop and Fridays off. No need to fight structures they try to become part of … oh well, unless the protest is a cool flash mob …

    Human mind can learn :-) Things change. Sometimes fast.

    If you read articles in early XX century you can find lots of people telling similar things, that nothing will change :-)

  • Often very fast. Look at Iceland...Panama Papers hit...72 hours later Iceland PM resigns...kinda. Look at speed of Occupy Wall Street...happened very fast. Internet can accelerate some of these processes of change.

    @Alek Lol re flash mobs and standing desks!, but there's a huge portion of that generation who are unsatisfied with politicians. Many joined Bernie, and whatever you think of Bernie, that's their form of expressing how they feel, and is indicative of trends within certain segments of American society.

  • Exactly.

  • Btw, increasing work day is being pushed under "improving unemployment" slogan. :-)

  • My great uncle led the fight for the 40hr week in the 1880s. He was sacked from his job and elected to parliament. We've been going backwards for over a generation. Rights not fought for are rights lost; look at the US. What we're seeing now is the death throws of Capitalism or 'cannibalism'. It's basically just naked Fascism.

  • He was sacked from his job and elected to parliament. We've been going backwards for over a generation. Rights not fought for are rights lost;

    Yep, yet. People now are more educated, smarter. Not understanding why people now fight less for their right originate from not understanding real life of workers in 1880s.

    What we're seeing now is the death throws of Capitalism or 'cannibalism'. It's basically just naked Fascism.

    Yet

    Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

    My own understanding is that fascism as real power can exist only during exponential energy/resources rise phase. And this is that communists in 30s did not understand. As they sided from materialistic explanation towards idealism. Wish of the capital is not enough. No one will tolerate system where you have such strong restrictions and regulations and yet you live worse each year.

  • France has begun using its reserve fuel supply to deal with petrol shortages caused by workers blockading oil refineries over labour reforms.

    The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) said striking workers are preventing trucks from being able to enter to load or unload.

    The union is disgruntled over the government's planned labour reforms, which it says would make it easier for employers to hire and fire workers.

    And this is proper way, strikes must become more wide in June.