There’s a difference between ‘working hard’ and actually inhumane conditions, which, while I did not experience them in high school, seem to pop up by default in a lot of situations. So I wouldn’t be really surprised if it happened in some high schools, because there isn’t much defending against it there.
So yeah the labor unions having the goal of ‘not having to work hard’ is a protection against a very serious and insidious problem.
The situations like: “Hey, I am not telling you to work so hard that you will damage your health. You would never hear me saying something like that; that’s a horrible strawman. Actually, please sign these papers that you were specifically instructed to take great care about your health, so that you can’t sue me if anything happens. Thank you! Now I want to remind you that if you get outcompeted by people who are less careful about damaging their health (which I officially know nothing about, because I prefer not to care about such details and only look at the outcomes), you may get fired. It’s your choice, though, and I take no responsibility.”
There’s a difference between ‘working hard’ and actually inhumane conditions, which, while I did not experience them in high school, seem to pop up by default in a lot of situations. So I wouldn’t be really surprised if it happened in some high schools, because there isn’t much defending against it there.
So yeah the labor unions having the goal of ‘not having to work hard’ is a protection against a very serious and insidious problem.
The situations like: “Hey, I am not telling you to work so hard that you will damage your health. You would never hear me saying something like that; that’s a horrible strawman. Actually, please sign these papers that you were specifically instructed to take great care about your health, so that you can’t sue me if anything happens. Thank you! Now I want to remind you that if you get outcompeted by people who are less careful about damaging their health (which I officially know nothing about, because I prefer not to care about such details and only look at the outcomes), you may get fired. It’s your choice, though, and I take no responsibility.”