Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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Iceland’s prime minister and women across the island nation are on strike to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence.

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[–] bioemerl@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason they get paid more than you is because their industry generates more revenue than your and/or its shared more equally.

Wat? When was I complaining about people making more money than me?

Who’s to say you don’t do more work because you are inefficient?

Again. Wat?

We're talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid "equally" for less work.

Unless you want to suggest that women are generally more efficient in their labor than men are, you're talking crazy here.

And if you do want to suggest that, you're still talking crazy.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're talking about statistical averages across the whole economy here. Statistically, the women protesting against the pay gap are protesting so that they get paid "equally" for less work.

Who said the women do less work than you? They do equal work and are asking for equal pay. Are you insinuating that you can do more work than a woman possibly could? Because that's just not true.

[–] bioemerl@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who said the women do less work than you?

BLS data?

They do equal work

They don't.

Are you insinuating that you can do more work than a woman possibly could?

Literally nothing I said implied that that. Plenty of individual women do as much or more work than the average guy. Statistically the average woman does less.