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Employees Are Rising Up Against Unacceptable Conditions — And It’s About Damn Time
Striketober is the latest chapter in a long-overdue fight for better wages and fair treatment for workers
As many can surely attest, working generally sucks. Working through a plague is a particular brand of awful.
To those who kiss up to employers, that doesn’t mean anyone stating the obvious is an ingrate — certainly not at a time when so many in this country continue to suffer under the weight of living in an expensive and grossly unequal country. Even if you like what you do for living individually, it doesn’t negate the fact that most American workers are largely overworked and underpaid when compared to those of similar nations. For nearly 40 years, we’ve mostly been unable to do anything about it.
That’s what makes what’s been happening this year such a remarkable time for the American worker — it’s about time more of the mainstream media shed light on it in a substantive way.
For example, some in the media can quit pretending there is a “labor shortage” when it’s really workers demanding that their jobs are worth working.
Some 4.3 million workers, which represents nearly 3% of the workforce, have quit their jobs since August…
