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As UAW strike looms, auto workers want 4-day, 32-hour workweek, among other contract demands
United Auto Workers – the union that represents workers at the Big 3 automakers in Detroit – on Friday launched a historic strike over stalled contract negotiations. One of the changes the union wants to see is a four-day workweek, working 32 hours for 40 hours of pay.
"The labor movement once fought for a vision of work life in which everyone had 8 hours for work, 8 hours rest, and 8 hours recreation," he said. "Sadly, it feels like we've gone so far backwards that we have to fight just to have the 40-hour workweek back."
Advocating for shorter workweeks is not a new concept for auto workers. Congress amended federal labor laws in 1940, limiting the workweek to 40 hours, but nearly 15 years earlier, Ford Motors became one of the first companies to implement a 40-hour week.
"I don't consider [a 30-hour workweek] ambitious. I consider it almost a human rights issue," said [Shawn Fain, the possible next UAW president], adding that many workers' health has been impacted by the long hours, with some suffering injuries. "That's the reality of standing there on assembly lines working day after day, seven days a week, 10 hours a day, 12 hours a day."
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originally posted by: beyondknowledge2
a reply to: dandandat2
How can a strike be looming when it is already going on?
Also at least two other threads about it.
Unions are overrated and well past there useful time. Everyone I know that belongs to one regrets joining.
originally posted by: beyondknowledge2
a reply to: dandandat2
How can a strike be looming when it is already going on?
Also at least two other threads about it.
Unions are overrated and well past there useful time. Everyone I know that belongs to one regrets joining.