• LemmysMum@lemmy.world
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    If Americans knew what workers rights were they’d be very angry to realise they have none.

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      Most Americans still have their hears shoved so far up their asses that they think all of Europe is a freedomless third world region where the governments silence all criticism and doctors still use leeches or something. Just completely delusional and in denial.

      Of course most Americans haven’t even left their own state, never mind gone to Europe to experience it themselves.

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      No, we have worker’s rights – not enough, but you do have rights. Federal and state labor law covers a surprisingly broad number of topics.

      Shitty employers want you to think you don’t have rights, because they want to continue to illegally exploit you.

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      This is because, so far, it’s up to the state’s to regulate, if they even do.

      Ex: in Colorado, the minimum PTO is 48 hours per year.

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        This is an American misapprehension. Even in your most worker friendly states you have extremely sub-par workers rights for a first world country.

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          But it’s also a misunderstanding of how the US is governed and regulated. It’s setup more like Europe than people realize.

          And yes, we’re fully aware of how much most of us are getting screwed on worker’s rights for time off. People in other countries don’t think we’re aware but we are. The question becomes, how do you fight for more rights? Our politicians absolutely suck. That’s the main issue. The two party system doesn’t work but we can’t agree what to do about it.

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            Strike, fight, bleed, die.

            We have ours because us and our ancestors already fought and died against our oppressors to get them.

            You have two choices, die for your overlords, or die for your rights.

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              That’s an option but it would have to be something so heinous, to push us to unite, I couldn’t fathom it. Nothing, so far, has pushed us to that point.

              Think about how many mass shootings we’ve had and that still doesn’t unite us. The issue is more complex than our European friends understand.

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                Yep. And that’s the American value system. Having your entire population under the veritable yoke of slavery and that isn’t enough to make you collectively revolt.

                Civility breeds cowardice.