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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 09:54 AM Jan 2014

Wisconsin: Grothman Hates That You Have Weekends

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2014/01/grothman-finds-new-group-to-insult.html

Once again, State Senator Glenn Grothman, the asocial Teapublican from West Bend, has put his foot into it. In his latest escapade of Grothmann has joined forces with State Representative Mark Born to announce that they don't think you need a day off of work and plan to outlaw weekends:

Wisconsin manufacturing and retail workers could volunteer to work seven days straight without a day off under a bill two Republican lawmakers are circulating on behalf of the state’s largest business group.

The bill promises to ratchet up tensions between the GOP and Democrats and their organized labor allies, who are still stinging after Republicans passed Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip most public workers of nearly all their union rights in 2011.

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Current Wisconsin law requires employers who own or operate factories or stores to give workers at least 24 consecutive hours off every seven days.
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Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
1. They want to dismantle all the gains of labor one by one....
Tue Jan 14, 2014, 10:05 AM
Jan 2014

Labor fought long and hard to get to the 8 hour workday and standard two-day weekend.

We now see the right trying to eliminate all of the advances made by labor and in so doing continue to chip away at the middle class.

When most of the world is going in the opposite direction we are putting even more pressure on labor. I remember GWB's statement it was only in America that a woman could have 3 part-time jobs. He didn't seem to get her point that she only wanted or should have to work one full-time job to support her family.

France, to the ridicule (and perhaps envy) of the rest of Europe and the world have a 36 hour work-week. I saw that one party in Sweden is going to propose a 6-hour work day, i.e. 30 hour work week. I doubt it will pass but still these ideas are alive in the "civilized' part of the world.

a kennedy

(29,467 posts)
4. Yah, laughed at this one......WPR's Joy Cardine's show..."good idea for 7 day work week"??
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 11:23 AM
Jan 2014

had two men on discussing it.....didn't really listen, mostly background noise, then at end of show people got to call in and vote either for or against. It was 6 to 1 against the proposed bill. Dah...... THE 40 HOUR WORK WEEK WAS WON ON THE BACKS OF UNION ACYIVIST. This whole idea of working 7 days just gets my blood boiling. Ugh....

Jimbo S

(2,955 posts)
5. I thought the law was 13-on, 1-off
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 12:06 PM
Jan 2014

I worked at a place once that made sure people didn't work two full weekends in a row. The place I'm at now has been working Sundays since April. Not sure how they're getting away with it.

I'm confused what the law really is.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
6. "Current Wisconsin law requires employers who own or operate factories or stores to give workers ...
Wed Jan 15, 2014, 12:10 PM
Jan 2014

Per the article, "Current Wisconsin law requires employers who own or operate factories or stores to give workers at least 24 consecutive hours off every seven days."


This has been widely reported and I've seen nothing refuting it.

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