Bernie Sanders Wants To Bring Back Your 40-Hour Workweek. Your thoughts?

2015-10-24T17:26:12-04:00

Back when I worked shift work, even with top dollar pay, I couldn't make it on 40 hours. I worked all of the overtime I could get. I worked some 7 day shifts, which is a big no no in chemical company companies. Seventh day was double time and I worked all. Of those I could get. By working all of those hours, I went from 50K per year to 100K and more in the 90's. Chemical plant and refinery operators get 2 weeks of vacation a year to start for the first five years and after five years it goes to three weeks a year, then, it goes to four weeks a year. If a family isn't getting these benefits, I think Bernie's idea is great. Paid sick leave, paid vacations, and time off with the newborn child is great. It would be nice if these families could get these perks. I took all of these perks for granted. I don't know how companies could be made to have a fourty hour week, but it is a great idea. See what you think.

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Bernie Sanders Wants To Bring Back Your 40-Hour Workweek

"A hundred years ago workers took to the streets to fight for 40 hours."

Response by GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad made Oct 24 at 2015 5:28 PM

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Sounds like a man with a plan SGT Private RallyPoint Member!

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Oct 24 at 2015 5:30 PM

2015-10-24T17:30:29-04:00

That's fine but for us self employed business owners that's not reasonable

Response by LTC Yinon Weiss made Oct 24 at 2015 5:38 PM

2015-10-24T17:38:25-04:00

Socialists always want to interfere with people's careers and people's businesses. I don't think we need bigger government or even more government involvement in private business. If people want to work more, they should be rewarded for it. Why should the government take away the benefits of those who wish to work more?

If the government makes it harder for companies to hire people in a way that is cost effective for the business, then the companies aren't going to just pay more to their employees. They will instead just outsource even more jobs to overseas locations. We don't want our entire country to end up bankrupt like Detroit.

It sounds like long shifts, while challenging, worked out well for you. You were able to increase your pay form 50k to 100k through your hard work. Under Bernie's plan, your job probably would have just been taken offshore.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 24 at 2015 5:40 PM

2015-10-24T17:40:54-04:00

Here is the problem, how is he going to do it? With more laws. What we need is for government to get out of "making jobs". Tell me where in the Constitution, articles and amendments, where government is granted the authority and ability to regulate and create jobs.

If you remember your highschool economics class, the whole reason those benifts came about was to attract high skilled workers and get around the 50-90% taxes that were levied by guys like Bernie.

Response by SrA Art Siatkowsky made Oct 24 at 2015 7:10 PM

2015-10-24T19:10:13-04:00

Berne Is full of crap. He is like passing out free candy to little commie children. It won't work. Americans will not agree to 50 to 75% tax on our paychecks. We work to take home our money....who is the government to determine how we spend our money?
How can a commie even run? Can someone who is totally against our Constitution run for a position that's swears to protect it??

Response by CSM Michael J. Uhlig made Oct 24 at 2015 7:14 PM

2015-10-24T19:14:45-04:00

This does not help/encourage small business!

Response by SGT Patrick Reno made Oct 24 at 2015 7:53 PM

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That would be great but just not possible for some positions. My weeks at least 55 hours, but I get a lot of benefits to work that many.

Response by SGT Francis Wright made Oct 24 at 2015 8:35 PM

2015-10-24T20:35:25-04:00

I don't know what he's talking about, I work 48 hours a week. Bernie is an idiot.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 24 at 2015 8:40 PM

2015-10-24T20:40:56-04:00

On my weekends and evenings I do roofing, masonry, or any other work I can rustle up, to make ends meet. I have a full time job, but can't work overtime. Somehow I doubt Bernies plan would help me a lick. Socialists don't want to help people, they want to control them.

Response by COL Jon Thompson made Oct 25 at 2015 5:52 PM

2015-10-25T17:52:01-04:00

I might have a different view if people did not get paid extra for overtime hours. I have not had a job since high school where that mattered since I have always been on salary and did not get any extra or any less pay because I worked over 40 hours. That being said, I don't think it is the government's job to mandate things like this. Some companies could not function without overtime availability. After leaving active duty in 1996, I started working as a manager for Hertz Corporation at Chicago O'Hare. Due to the nature of travel, we were open 365/24/7. The hourly employers were scheduled for 8 hours per shift. However, in cases of flight delays, we needed people to stay longer and indeed had a clause in the union CBA that allowed us to mandate that employees stay for up to 4 more hours. If we could not offer or mandate overtime, the business would have failed when the flights would come in at 0100. It also would not have made sense to hire more employees to cover overtime because we did not need that extra staffing all the time. Overtime gave us the flexibility. Also, my brother works a lot of overtime for his job. If he could not do that, his family would suffer financially. Overall, this sounds great like many of Sanders' other ideas but there are consequences to all of them. I think this would have a detrimental impact on businesses and also on the workers who depend on overtime.

Response by PO3 Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 26 at 2015 8:21 AM

2015-10-26T08:21:26-04:00

? huh ? I thought 24/7 for the salves and 0 for the voters ?