Sheinbaum announces transition
to 40 hour workweek
jesus christ, the fact they weren't already there. 5 days of work is bad enough, but 1 solitary day of leisure is hell
IIRC Mexico and Chile has the highest average workhours per year in the OECD. I remember once arguing with a guy at work about "protestant work-ethic" being a myth and showed him the graph. He's quite the neoliberal, so he puts a lot of stock in graphs compiled by NGOs, so after a while I finally shut him up.
Protestant work ethic is just being at work all the time so you don't have to see your family that hates you and you hate. Nothing to do with actual productivity lmao
He’s quite the neoliberal, so he puts a lot of stock in graphs compiled by NGOs
Truly intellectual titans
wouldnt this be catholic work ethic
Sorry if my post was unclear, but yes. Mexico and Chile are both extremly catholic countries, while my part of Scandinavia is extremely protestant and we famously work 37 hours every week and not a second more.
For context, it seems that the standard work week is currently 6 days/48 hours
We're on this fight on Brazil too, trying to move from 6×1, 44hs to 5×2, 40hs. The mf PT labor ministry is still "studying" if it factible and Lula had given 0 priority of it.
Ok, what the actual fuck is going on in Mexico?
The left (myself included) turns up its nose at electoralism, but this is a HUGE material win for the working class.
Does anyone have background on how they're making such incredible progress? Did they literally just :vote: hard enough and... it actually worked??
the pro-worker movement has been quite vocal for a long time on many different issues but the business organizations have been pushing the narrative that more rights for worker will damage the economy, which governments have been supporting.
when amlo won, many pro-worker activists got more vocal and some were able to get closer to the government, making some good material changes (increase the minimum salary, having 12 days of vacation per year, having a fucking chair in your workplace) but amlo was very clear that 40 h/week kill not happen during his term. due to this, the movement got way more intense, even getting violent towards the government to increase the pressure.
sheimbaum said that it was confirmed to happen during her term but she has been stalling the discussion while "discussing with the corporations" since then. it looks like the pressure finally made effect.
i am not very close to these events so i might have gotten something wrong or misrepressented something but tldr this was a workers won despite the government, not thanks to it.
Maybe I should just move to Mexico
please dont gentrify mexico
Gentrification is not done by individuals relocating due to their material conditions, especially when those individuals are broke communists
Hexbear goes to Mexico could be cool.
Oh I am so down to join.
That's fucking awesome
Cardenas is smiling down on her
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