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.

The bosses are sacking wage-slaves, enforcing shorter working week, unpaid overtime, increasing exploitation as the plunder our time energy and the planets resources but why can't we work less ans share the jobs and still all live well ?

Today is Labour Day aka "Moomba" to commemorate the 8 hour day: - 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours recreation - won by direct action when stone masons walked off the Melbourne University construction site after 8 hours and then to other sites around the city calling on all to end their labours after 8 hours in 1856.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day#Australia

In this Victoria, our dear land, The first that dared be free, To show the world what freedom meant In new lands 'cross the sea - Ode to the Eight Hours' Pioneers Hamilton Mackinnon April 21, 1896 http://www.8hourday.org.au/index.asp

“A nation is really rich if the working day is 6 hours rather than twelve. Wealth is disposable time, and nothing more.” Karl Marx