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In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.

Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Somehow I doubt those 66% of Americans will bother voting for the people and parties that would make this happen though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Well yeah. I deserve that vacation. Not those other people though. You know the ones I mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because neither party would? The red koolaide people would dismiss this idea immediately, because it's clearly scary communism. The blue koolaide people would pretend to support it while asking for your votes, then proceed to conveniently forget about it entirely, or pretend to try to do it while also receiving lobbying money from nearly every corporation and anti-workers-union type organization.

The people that would support this are not part of either party.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you, you've rather made my point for me by erroneously assuming I was referring to either of those two parties

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or, just maybe, I've expanded on your original point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't doubt it, but our passion for talking about the presidency has to turn into a passion for voting for local offices, too. The governor, representatives, and most key to this issue - unions. One must imagine the Libs unhappy.