UAW president Shawn Fain has called for a 32-hour workweek. It’s the revival of an old vision in the US labor movement — and the sort of ambition overworked and underpaid employees need.
Economist Juliet Schor is leading four-day work week trials in countries like the US and Ireland, and the results so far have been overwhelmingly positive
Last year shattered the myth of people needing to trek into the office every single day. The post-pandemic future of work could include various models of shorter workweeks and flexible schedules.
Ardern’s idea upends four decades of neoliberal insistence that workplace ‘flexibility’ is the purview only of employers
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Is eight hours really the ultimate truth? I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.
Worldwide, 90 percent of domestic workers—the vast majority of whom are women—do not have access to any kind of social security coverage, according to the International Labour Organization. In the United States, an estimated 95 percent of domestic workers are female, foreign born and/ or persons of color. They frequently lack protections and face near constant adversity.
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