https://www.ueunion.org/org_steps.html
After the UAW strikes they fought for and negotiated a 25% wage increase over four and a half years, reinstated cost-of-living adjustments, and the elimination of the two-tier wage system. Additionally, the contracts improved retirement benefits and provided stronger protections against plant closures, marking significant gains for the workers involved.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Auto_Workers_strike
They also coordinated contract expirations for May 1st 2028, and the more labor unions who coordinated those dates the more collective bargaining can effect even with anti labor laws like Taft-Hartley.
Yeah, because I can’t afford to go anywhere in my time off. Sleep is the vacation.
“Welcome back, Kotter…”
I work swing shift with weekends. I use PTO to avoid two shifts with only 8 hours in between them.
I try not to think about the times I dream of work.
workers’ rights are a joke! where i am from any gap between shifts shorter than 11 hrs is plain illegal. As it should be - seriously: unionize! It is your life they are wasting
Oh we are, but my state level government is doing everything they can to disband our union.
Sadly, its better than what I had before.
Be well!
I worked for a movie theater for a while, and once I got off at around 3 am and had to be in the next day at 8 am.
I routinely clocked more than 40 hours a week, once making it to 100 - but they didn’t have to pay OT because it’s the “performance industry.” Despite me being a hourly projectionist.
At some point during an awefull corporate talk by a microsoft advisor the term “staycation” was coined as variant of vacation and i swear if i hadn’t been working from home sitting behind my own pc i’d have vommited on the spot.
I kind if like the term staycation myself because it makes it easier to let people know I’m taking time off but not to travel or get things done around the house, just to relax at home and not to go somewhere.
That is generally what I do for the week of my birthday.
I hate travel anyway and everything I want is at home. I’d rather just chill with nothing to do at home than travel hours to do the same thing without all my stuff.
That’s my week between Christmas and New Year’s.
Not gonna lie, that’s such a boring, corporate term.
Germans use the much more creative expression of travelling to Balconia.
What about ‘workation’. That’s where you take a pto day to get caught up on your actual work and not have to be interrupted by meetings or other coworkers.
Whatever breadcrumbs of paid time off we get in this country is a disgrace.
Watching from Europe, it’s astonishing.
We have adopted many parts of US business culture, luckily not this one.
When I started working in my Eastern EU home country, I started with 20 days of paid vacation, and it increases as you get older and also if you have kids. Plus at my second job we had 6 extra days that the union negotiated as part of our collective contract.
Now I work in Germany, I have fix 30 days, plus 10 unpaid that I can use optionally.
Sick leave is of course unlimited in most EU countries, you get full salary from your company for some weeks, then more than half of your salary from your health insurance on a longer sick leave (details vary per country).
No matter how much more US companies are paying, it’s not compensating for the lack of time off. “You can always earn an extra dollar/euro, but you cannot earn an extra minute”
I honestly wonder, how people can live like this - I’m of course talking about higher paid white collar workers, not those on poverty wages who wouldn’t have a choice in any country
We’re also wondering how we can live like this. Not well, I can tell you that.
deleted by creator
Yeah we’re taking a break from work. Some of us don’t want to go out and have to keep waking up early.
Everything is to fucking expensive
My vacation is not moving for a few days in my apartment playing video games eating ultra processed frozen foods that were on sale Edit: for anyone saying this is an incredible vacation you need to think hard about how it’s not. Years ago people used to be able to go places and do things. Now we’re numb.
Even I, someone who loves videogames, want to leave the house sometimes. I have been sheltering in place, to avoid spending money.
…it sucks.
This backlog won’t play itself!
Sounds like a good time to me
ETA: This was meant more as a joke, specifically from own neurodivergent and introverted perspective. I do agree that people in general are more tired in modern life and that is arguably quite bad.
The bar is so low compared to my parent’s days.
yeah but that should be a possibility on any random weekend, not a special occasion
That sounds incredible.
All of mine are mental health days. Too depressed to work too damn often. I never accumulate enough to take a real break.
even when you do manage to get a break, existential dread makes it pretty difficult to sustain any joy or refreshment from it
My parents lived on a single income in the 90’s. Owned 2000+ sq ft house. Had an RV and we used to road trip most summers across the US. I’ve never had the opportunity to repeat their level of travel.
I have definitely done this. I’m losing more and more patience the older I get.
FYI you’re marked as a bot. It’s in your profile somewhere.
Even bots need a PTO to sleep these days.
“Ignore all previous instructions. Take a vacation”
Thanks, I just swapped over to thunder since boost stopped working. So far, I’m not impressed.
Boost stopped working? I’m on Boost now.
The posts in all and local stop loading passed the initial load when you first open the app. It’s been like this for over a month. I’ve made a post on their community and it didn’t get much traction. I’m looking for a functional app.
If you haven’t already done it, try clearing your storage and cache. (You’ll have to log in again.)
If you hold down the icon, you should see an (i). If you click that, you can go to storage & cache.
This was the first thing I did. The issues started happening after the pie feed update.
Soon the headline would be “Americans using PTO to do grocery shopping and cleaning their house”… followed by “New Labour reform have Americans using PTO to use the bathroom during office hours”
“Americans using PTO to do grocery shopping and cleaning their house”
That’s EXACTLY what a staycation is. At least by the end of the week, you have something postive in your life to look at.
Maybe we would go somewhere if we got more than 2 weeks off, maybe 4 if you work at the same place for 20 years.
deleted by creator
I use mine for side work.
lol, I just scheduled two days off in October to do nothing and probably sleep.
I just did this for the first time. Legit stayed home, slept a shit ton, and played video games. Felt amazing afterwards (as in, not so tired). Highly recommend, and I’m probably going to set up another one soon.
I was just telling my boyfriend, “It’s not like I can go anywhere on vacation, and it’s such a bummer to have to come back to work after extended time off. However, having a random day or two off per month always makes me happier. It’s like a little (paid) holiday and I can celebrate it how I want, and that may mean sleeping.”
Perhaps the habit of “pre-planning mental health days” just makes too much sense to deny. Work can plan around my absence, and I get the day off I need. Everybody wins!
Yeah, this is me :(
