Worked to Death vs. Unemployed

I haven't been able to blog much the past few days because I'm working 10-11 hour days! My company has "acquired" several other companies and with the consolidation some workers were laid off--leaving fewer workers to do more work.

Question: Is this a good thing or a bad thing? It is good that I still have a job and am not unemployed like millions of people. But what about the "eight hour" work day workers fought and died for a century ago? What about leisure and family time?

Over the past few decades, worker productivity has INCREASED, along with corporate profits, while wages have remained steady or declined.

In the current recession, companies are laying off workers, but trying to increase the "productivity" of the workers left.

So should we just be lucky we have a job? What can workers, especially those who do not have a union to represent them do?

Jobs With Justice
Labor Net
Worker's Independent News
DSA: Talking Union
Employee Free Choice Act

GOP Shafts American Workers

Auto "Bailout" Dies in Senate

The Republicans in the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Corker (R-TN), killed the $14 "bailout" of the auto companies because they think American auto workers should make more wage and benefit concessions. They supported the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street bankers, but oppose $14 billion to say 3 million America jobs??

This is class warfare! Will the Democrats stand up for the American working class?

Why don't the Democrats in the Senate either force the Republicans to fillibuster to kill American jobs, or change the rules in the Senate to require 55 votes instead of 60 to overide a fillibuster?

AFL-CIOJob-Killing Republicans

UAW: Sen. Corker Risking 110,000 Jobs in Tennessee

GOP Memo: "Republicans should stand firm and take their first shot at organized labor."

GM Closes 20 Plants

GM, Crysler Near Bankruptcy

Michael Moore: Senate GOP to Middle Class--Drop Dead