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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Bernie Sanders: Is there a path to remove big money from politics? Goddamn right there is! (youtu.be)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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One of the biggest obstacles facing workers issues in the US is the disproportionate representation that corporate interests recieve, due to funding campaigns indirectly through citizens united. Bernie highlights the end of citizens' united, and public funding for political campaigns as key pathways to fix the outsized political impact of corporate interests

As long as corporate interests bankroll political campaigns, the people we can vote for will be elected partially at the behest of companies, and will have a conflict of interest in representing American workers

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

People like you should trial: living in abject poverty, living in a "communist" state, or even in a community that implements their own demands. Y'all just see a problem with the system and think the only solution is to start afresh with some half-baked, idealistic system that always somehow fails to consider that humans are shitty animals from the get go.

Y'all run your mouths about anarchy (which will fail as soon as people start murdering each other) or marxism or communism (without even understand what those are or looking at how things went historically) and can't even fathom why they haven't worked out or were replaced.