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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What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? (i.redd.it)

submitted 6 months ago by dystop@lemmy.world to c/workreform@lemmy.world

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

As organized labor gains more steam

is there a stat somewhere that agrees with this? please say yes and share a link; i would like to believe this is true, but evidence suggests that a union's biggest hurdle is still convincing white people that non-white people need to be in their union too.

[–] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/

Overall, it shows union rates being mostly a wash in 2023, but that's due to a large increase in total jobs that year; raw number of members went up, rate slightly declined. Black workers made up almost the entire grid increase.

The point that maybe relates most to what OP was saying:

These statistics don’t capture the number of workers who want to join unions. Evidence suggests that in 2023, more than 60 million workers wanted to join a union but couldn’t do so.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

This reply came more from the big wins Labor has experienced the last two years, such as the auto, rail, and writers' strikes being resolved, not individual stats.

[–] cruncher@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

I think there's also the problem of certain sectors of work, like tech or retail, which should be unionized but aren't. Either because a lack of a history of unionization or because companies can too easily close a location and open another one across the street.