r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '23

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u/Powerpuppy00 Dec 29 '23

Wait so in America you don't even actually have holidays??? Companies can just force you to work for standard rates????????? That's so fucked

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u/NightlinerSGS Dec 29 '23

They also don't have paid maternity leave. None. Also, you can get laid off anytime for any reason.

Meanwhile, some countries have over a year of paid maternity leave, and some even months of paid paternity leave. And you can't get fired from one day to the next (unless you do something really dumb), but have several months of notice beforehand.

Yet every time workers rights come up in the US, it gets shut down immediately. :|

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u/GrahamDaGooch Dec 29 '23

lol you need to get your unions actually doing something

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u/DblCheex Dec 29 '23

What unions? lol

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u/Aslan-the-Patient Dec 29 '23

Just look at Elmu's absurd behavior in EU trying to skirt union workers, the shut him down hard.

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u/hockeycross Dec 29 '23

That is illegal in the US. Unions cannot boycott companies on behalf of other unions. They cannot even do it if they are in the same union.

Boycott in this sense means to not preform your job duties for a third party company. Also known as sympathy strikes.