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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) today announced that this Thursday he will introduce legislation to establish a standard 32-hour workweek in America with no loss in pay – an important step toward ensuring that workers share in the massive increase in productivity driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology. Sanders is joined on the Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act in the Senate by Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.) and in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) who introduced companion legislation.

Read the bill summary, here. [PDF]
Read the bill text, here. [PDF]

The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would:

  • Reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over four years by lowering the maximum hours threshold for overtime compensation for non-exempt employees.
  • Require overtime pay at time and a half for workdays longer than eight hours, and overtime pay at double a worker’s regular pay for workdays longer than 12 hours.
  • Protect workers’ pay and benefits to ensure that a reduction in the workweek does not cause a loss in pay.

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[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

I had a libertarian manager who used to say "What has Bernie ever actually done?". Hate to hand it to him, but hey, at least im still not a libertarian shrug-outta-hecks

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Why would a libertarian be complaining about a politician not getting laws passed?

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Cuz they're just libs with extra edge and that was a talking point from when the bern was a presidential candidate but i suspect your question was rhetorical :D

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Why is the rest of our government so bought and corrupt they refuse to do any good?

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

I mean, even if Bernie had succeeded in couping Demonrats back in 2020, i dont have much faith in amerikkka democratic socialism. No sectarian smoke to my comrades who are still demsoc, but I jumped ship around 2020 after the history I read and reality started to collide. Even in the FDR days the working class has never held lasting power, it always gets funneled into bourgeois parties and unions. bern-disgust is controlled opposition, anything he accomplishes at this point will be because his colleagues in all four branches (including cia here) allow it to happen

[-] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

I had a libertarian manager who used to say "What has Bernie ever actually done?". Hate to hand it to him,

Of al the criticisms one can have of Sanders, this one really annoys me. Offcourse he "doesn't get annything done", because all other people there are the worst monsters imaginable, who're only trying to get tax cuts for their donors. That's a criticism of them, not of Sanders. The problem is that there is no broader movement agitating around these sort of bills, not that they're voted down. These bills are a meager form of pressure on the elite, their existence is a net positive.

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

You dont have to hand anything to Bernie. All criticism is valid, cuz he still cant even do the bare minimum of not waffling on issues like Yugoslavia or Palestine. But I guess not batting 100 in the Imperial Senate is what it takes to keep your seat

[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Literal Hillary Clinton talking point

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago
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