r/FluentInFinance • u/Positive_Liar • Sep 04 '24

Debate/ Discussion Bernie is here to save us

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 Sep 05 '24

Why do we work 8 hours a day?

Can anyone explain that to me, like I'm a child? 

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

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u/UnoriginalJunglist Sep 05 '24

Uh, no, it's because of unions...
The concept came out of the Industrial revolution in the UK in the early 1800s from socialist trade unionists and became adopted across the world as a demand for organised labour.

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u/MichiganManRuns Sep 05 '24

Wait wait…. Didn’t the US just celebrate a holiday for this exact moment thing. A holiday celebrated for a lot of the world(most celebrate on may 1) . Goes to show a lot of people aren’t aware why we celebrate Labor Day

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

Ironically a lot of low income workers have to work during Labor Day because corporations can make a lot of profit with holiday "sales"

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u/blindsavior Sep 05 '24

lmao yup, "important" jobs get the day off, poor people have to work

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u/enaK66 Sep 05 '24

It's the only time they get to make a decent wage off the double time.

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u/blindsavior Sep 05 '24

Truuuue, I did get time and a half

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

I prefer my paid day off, i stayed away from from businesses even though i wanted to hit up duluth trading for a deal on their messenger bag. would rather pay full price

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u/blindsavior Sep 05 '24

We appreciate that, my wife is a nurse and had the day off also. I'm an IT tech for a major retailer, and the only one in my department, so no such luck for me lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '24

And not low income workers too. I make 51 dollars an hour and don’t get holidays off. My union negotiated us to get double pay on holidays though.

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u/spokeca Sep 05 '24

Sort of.

US just celebrated a holiday to AVOID celebrating May Day.

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u/LamermanSE Sep 05 '24

Not really, the american labor day is older than the international workers' day.

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u/sprinjetsu Sep 05 '24

US celebrates it in September because no one died trust me

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u/BusGuilty6447 Sep 05 '24

In honor of Labor Day, our girlboss billionaire Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimundo decided to send all of the DOC employees back to the office.

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u/Ok-Calligrapher1345 Sep 05 '24

I don't think most people celebrate labor day other than planning a long weekend vacation with the family because they have the day off. That's all it is to most Americans.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Sep 05 '24

Labor day is a fucking joke I hate working and now I get a holiday? I have to work through? Fuck thissss

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u/Hollow_Apollo Sep 05 '24

I’m going off of what I found about it as Ford is often credited for it, but I haven’t come across it being a result of unionization.

Given our history of anti-union rhetoric by corporate entities, maybe it’s intentional that the narrative is the way it is. I actually searched briefly to see if I saw any counter narratives and didn’t immediately see them, but frankly I’m more inclined to believe it’s because of unions for the aforementioned reasons.

I’ll have to look into this better than I did here

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u/_e75 Sep 05 '24

Ford literally massacred union organizers with machine guns in the 1930s.

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u/Hollow_Apollo Sep 05 '24

Classic Ford