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http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2014/01/grothman-finds-new-group-to-insult.htmlWisconsin 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 states 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 Walkers 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.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)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.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...how many days a week/month/year Grothman works.
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)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)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)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.