for workers and the economy, autumn could be scary

[bcbm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/for-workers-and-the-economy-autumn-could-be-scary/2013/09/03/26448f9e-118a-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html

oh good. i guess i should start trying to find that second job now

[Thirsty Crow]

Just to add a perspecive tied to a country different from that of the US (Poland), illuminating the shitfest for the working class that is to come:

http://libcom.org/news/poland-does-away-8-hour-day-15062013


On June 13, the Polish government eliminated the 8-hour working day, a right which was won in 1919. The government supposedly is trying to make Poland even more "competitive" for capitalists who want to earn more through exploiting the poor worker protection in the country and the scandalously low wages.


The elimination of the 8 hour day is accomplished by increasing accounting periods for calculating the average amount of hours worked for the whole year and by also introducing flexible working hours. In the past, you had to have a certain resting time between your shifts and if your shifts were moved from day to day, it could be considered outside your normal working time. You would then be entitled to overtime pay. The new rules allow bosses to impose much longer working days, so long as if some other time of the year they cut the hours. For workers in some industries and areas, this could mean long days for all their working time, and a few months of idleness, instead of stable working hours. It is also not clear what rights workers who are hired temporarily (for example for 6 months) would have under this scheme.

[Popular Front of Judea]

September 2008 was scary. This? This is the new normal. A stop and go economy with less than 2% growth rate.

[bcbm]

Just to add a perspecive tied to a country different from that of the US (Poland), illuminating the shitfest for the working class that is to come:



sounds pretty much like the situation here now.