Shorter Working Week: Who Pays the Price?
Rail workers continue to fight for shorter working hours. All of us should by now be on a (maximum) 35-hour week - then push forward to a 4-day, 32-hour week. We need shorter working hours so that we can have a decent life outside work. But the employers want to keep on making profits out of us, so they resist our demands, or they insist that if we work for less time, then we either produce more or get paid less. So this is not just an issue of whether we get shorter hours, but of who pays the price. The bosses should pay. They can afford it: they have plenty of cash for their own over...