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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.
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- 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.
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- 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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Older Millennial here and because I hang out at websites that Zoomers do, I've also started doing this. Y'all have had a major influence on the way I see life, the universe, and everything. I try to keep my sick, PTO, and UPT hours as close to 0 as I can. I call off several times a month and I've come into work late every single day for almost a year straight now.
If you're going to give me the time, I'm going to use it. Only thing I save up is vacation hours for a yearly trip to wherever.
That part is questionable, but if you're just working 10a - 6p, it's fine. If you're making another person cover for you until 9:02, it's absolutely not fine.
8-5 with unpaid lunch is normal here. 830-45 is "late" even if you work til 530-45. Just my experience
The company has a backup plan for this (they offer extra shifts to cover tardiness/absences and someone always picks them up), not to mention that we're overstaffed almost every single day; bottom line is that I'm not worried about it. It's the company's responsibility to have enough staff on-hand, not mine.
In your boat and managed university students. Even millennials are dinosaurs and we all just need to get out of the way.