Industrial Workers of the World

A 4 hour day with no cut in pay will end the time thief Bosses rip off of the "surplus value" of our labour time we donate to them as profits every week...

Coaltion supremo Tony "Taliban" Abbott and the Prime Mincer KRudd who take turns running the meat grinder of us all that is wageslavery disagree with such an upsetting plan and want us all instead to work 40 plus hours with voluntary overtime on and on until 68-70 years of age ....

Shorter working week soon inevitable, forecasts NEW Economics Foundation 13 February 2010

A shorter working week is set to become the new norm, according to a report out this week from nef (the new economics foundation), the UK's leading independent think tank. Published today (Saturday, 13 February, 2010) the study, 21 hours, forecasts a major shift in the length of the formal working week as a consequence of dealing with key economic, social and environmental problems. And this can be seen as a positive opportunity, say the researchers, rather than a threat.

According to nef, there are several forces pushing us towards a shorter working week: lasting damage to the economy caused by the banking crisis, an increasingly divided society with too much over-work alongside too much unemployment, and an urgent need for deep cuts in environmentally damaging over-consumption. These combine with a growing interest in people spending more time producing and delivering a share of their own goods and services - from co-produced care and neighbourhood-based activities, to food, clothing and other necessities. "So many of us live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume. And our consumption habits are squandering the earth's natural resources", says Anna Coote, co-author of the report and Head of Social Policy at nef.

"Spending less time in paid work could help us to break this pattern. We'd have more time to be better parents, better citizens, better carers and better neighbours. And we could even become better employees: less stressed, more in control, happier in our jobs and more productive. It is time to break the power of the old industrial clock, take back our lives and work for a sustainable future."

more at http://neweconomics.org/press-releases/shorter-working-week-soon-inevitable-forecasts-think-tank130210

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* Financial Times: Call for 21-hour week * BBC News: Cut working week to 21 hours, urges think tank * The Guardian: Working week should be 21 hours, says New Economics Foundation * Daily Mirror: Less work means 'better future' * BBC Have Your Say: Should we all work just 21 hours a week? * BBC Radio 4 Today: A 21-hour working week could be "inevitable" * Personnel Today: 21-hour working week could cut unemployment and boost productivity says nef * Digital Journal: U.K. think tank: Move to 21-hour working week * Scotsman: Working a shorter week better for us all, claims thinktank * ABC News: Call to slash long working hours