swiss voters reject 6 weeks of paid vacation

[the last donut of the night]

Swiss citizens appear to be leading the way on European austerity, rejecting a minimum six weeks paid vacation a year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46697636/ns/business-world_business/#.T10pAzEgdk5

[moulinrouge]

And more proof that workers will not always vote for less work, as the people who oppose workplace democracy say.

[bricolage]

And more proof that workers will not always vote for less work, as the people who oppose workplace democracy say.
you say it like this is a good thing.


anyway I suppose this is a good example of why you can't democratise capitalism.

[X5N]

At least Zurich approved sex boxes.

[Kowalsky]

In a country where the bourgeoise forces are dominant, 33% of the voters backing up a clearly leftist proposal is not that bad.

[Amal]

I want to know whether this is a general referendum or just the workers voted in the pole. If it's general, then kindly remember that there are also other classes, mainly the petty-bourgeoisie who probably voted against. Actually, it's an example "people" and "workers" often found themselves face to face.

[l'Enfermé]

Obviously, it's the Swiss!

[Delenda Carthago]

You have to know the whole social dialog to be able to make safe conclusions. If you dont, you cant be able to know why this was descided.

Other than that, I google-translate something I had read a lil while ago in a greek site.


Read how direct democracy "terrorizing" the wealthy in Switzerland

Panic has occupied the rich of the rich Swiss, who are queuing to pass the notary, with gifts or parental benefits to the heirs of their properties.

As he writes in kentri.gr, cause of panic was the mover and Christian citizens leftist circles for inheritance tax 20% from January 1, 2012, on large fortunes.

According to a report by the Swiss television only in the canton of Zurich, transferred property worth at least 10 billion
Whether this is justified panic, now no one knows, because this people's initiative drive is still in its infancy and has not yet accumulated the necessary number of 100,000 signatures for a referendum.

What has alarmed the wealthy, is a clause contained In this referendum and the proposal provides for retrospective effect from 1.1.2012. If the proposal is voted by the majority of Swiss law and do not have any room to the bypass.

What scares me even more is that the rich under the proposal, two-thirds of the tax would go to mandatory insurance fund, which gives a good chance of voting for the proposal. Under the proposal legacies under two million euro will continue to remain tax free.

This means that the vast majority will gain from the taxation of large fortunes. According to current data will incur only 80,000 people or 1.7% of taxpayers.

Unlike what happens in Greece where the majority taxed to remain immune to tax the rich minority.

[ckaihatsu]

Known for their work ethic, the Swiss appeared to heed warnings from government and business that more vacation would raise labor costs and put the economy at risk.


This is a classic case of false consciousness among the proletariat since the Swiss workers are identifying with "the economy" (nationalism), instead of with their own interests as workers for more paid time-off *and* more hiring to fill in any gaps.

If workers got *dividends* from their governments for making sacrifices at work it would be a different kind of politics altogether, but they / we don't -- actually we *pay in* to government in the form of taxes....