8个月前

Greece Just Became the First European Country to Impose a 6-Day Workweek

truthout.org Greece Just Became the First European Country to Impose a 6-Day Workweek

Years of brutal neoliberal capitalism combined with the left’s betrayal have led to widespread political demoralization.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/18349787

Years of brutal neoliberal capitalism combined with the left’s betrayal have led to widespread political demoralization.
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8个月前

Opinion

Greece Just Became the First European Country to Impose a 6-Day Workweek

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China should impose a four-day work week just to dunk on the imperial core.
- China never will lol, they’re suppressing wage growth in the middle and lower classes to find businesses and corporations. The capitalist infection has spread to ‘socialist’ countries too, unfortunately.
  
  Uh-huh.
  Reuters, 2018: China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
  United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
  Tricontinental, 2021: Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China
  World Bank, 2022: Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience
  CNBC, 2024: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary
- Or maybe instead of dunking China should do something that actually helps the workers of greece, who might need all the solidarity they can get.

Is it a typo? We're supposed to be moving to 4.
As a poster child of neoliberal transformation, Greece is the first country in Europe to introduce the six-day workweek, and it comes at a time when other European countries have already adopted or tested, with overwhelmingly positive results, a four-day workweek system.
Edit: its not a typo. Wow.

Right wingers aren't friends of workers. Far from it. If you vote right, you vote against freedom.

TIL that US companies are rolling out a 6 day workweek too
https://www.newsweek.com/businesses-are-moving-six-day-work-weeks-1896283

As much as I love Greek culture, I think I'm going to stay right here. I will use the long(er) weekend to visit Greece and her hard-working people.
To think social progress is not coming from Europe anymore...

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