We're Killing Ourselves on the Job --The Problem Is About Wealth and Wages: Not More Work

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/labor/were-killing-ourselves-job-problem-about-wealth-and-wages-not-more-work


I keep getting these emails from the Laborers union: “The Keystone XL Pipeline isn’t just a pipeline, but a lifeline to good, family-supporting jobs.”

In the labor movement we’re supposed to be for anything that creates more paid work. But here’s some heresy for you: I think we need less work.

Senators who voted against the pipeline in November, the union says, threw away a chance to “unlock millions of work hours,” and instead “killed thousands of jobs.”

Is the Senate “killing jobs?” Maybe. Meanwhile, jobs are killing us.

[Sherman A1]

1. Precisely

We need to end this nonsense fix all business approach of "do more and more with less and less and less......."

It is one thing to be efficient, it's another thing to just be plain stupid.

[a kennedy]

2. EXACTLY......Not more work, just more pay for what they're working now.

folks don't even take vacations that they're entitled to.....WTH??