Work Reform

10352 readers

463 users here now

A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

seeCseas

[email protected]

TinMod

Is this community going to be about organizing and taking action, or just memes and screenshots of tweets? (self.workreform)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SheeEttin to c/workreform

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm all for reforming our current work system, but we need organized action. Can we make that happen here? Or is there a different community for that?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What I think should happen is that once it gets big enough, 'Worker Memes' should split into its own forum/mag so things are organized better.

I also disagree that 500 or so can't do any action. They can still write to politicians, tell people about a big protest that is going to happen, or send money to striking workers, do coding if any are programmers, etc. It's just a tiny amount of action, but if we're connecting with other groups that can add up.

[–] seeCseas 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! You definitely have some good ideas. Like you said, once it gets big enough we can think about splitting it, but we're nowhere near that threshold - as a comparison, the reddit equivalent has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and it's being used for awareness posts/memes as well as advocacy (talking about strikes that are happening). I don't know what a good threshold is, but we're nowhere near large enough yet - we barely have 1 page of content, so there's room for everything.

In the meantime, feel free to keep posting advocacy/action ideas!