Decentralized Mayday picnic

01.05.2020
14:00 - 16:00

At home

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We gotta fight 4(h)our right…
Make the good life systemically relevant!

Come to the decentralized Mayday picnic. Am 1. Mai ab 14:00 there is a colorful live program. If you want to contribute more, get in touch under info(at)4hour-league.org
Otherwise we'll see each other “Zoom”: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82777708196 or
in the online stream https://www.facebook.com/4StundenLiga/.

Join the 4 hour league!
Four hour day! * Full wage compensation! * Full staff compensation!
Capital has to pay!

What applied to employees even before the crisis, applies even more so now: We have to fight for our rights!
Gut 100 Years after the introduction of the eight-hour day, we are faced with a massive attack on workers' rights. What industry- and employers' associations have been calling for a long time, is now enforced in the mode of the crisis team policy: Qua ordinance, the federal states and the federal government override the Working Hours Act and thus open the way to the 12-hour day. At the same time, millions of employees are working on short-time work. While those, who can no longer pay their rent due to this loss of income, have to pay off their rent debts after the crisis, the capital is supported with public funds in the trillions. Even in this situation, its owners enjoy high dividends: So let Daimler, VW, BASF and other companies are subsidized by the state for short-time work and continue to pour undiminished profits on theirs (With-)Owners. For all of them, who are pushed to work every day with a high level of health risk and, given the possibility of 12-hour shifts and shorter rest periods 19. Century must feel set back, there remains only applause from the balcony and warm words from politics. But humans do not live on warm words alone.
There would be another way: In the crisis we get an idea of ​​it, which professions are indispensable for a society. Suddenly there is discussion, how important the food in particular- and health care, the cleaners and public services are overall. At the same time, the production stops make it clear, that we could also do without a large number of production areas. Who is missing the construction and purchase of cars?, who thinks about it, that more weapons would have to be made, who would like to risk their health for the production of further televisions? The corona pandemic leads the paramount importance of the so-called reproductive professions, z.B. in nursing or day care centers, which are often exercised by women and are poorly paid, once again in mind - they are systemically important. The crisis makes it clear, that we urgently need to put it to the test, what we consider important as a company and that we cannot leave the decision to the market, if everyone should be taken care of.
However, we do not only want to determine in the crisis, what is systemically important. Basically, we don't want to do socially redundant work for the profits of capital. Instead of subjecting our lives to the production of wealth, that doesn't even belong to us, we want a good life for everyone. By radically reducing working hours, we could split up the work more meaningfully and concentrate on it, what we consider important as a society, because it serves our life. We demand the 4-hour day, so all the time for friends and relatives, for politics, Have culture and idleness; so that the good life becomes systemically important. We have to fight for that: Agree on the 4 hour requirement!