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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 6 days ago

Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too

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Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance—now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick too

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German workers take more than a day off work sick, every single month—so now the government is stepping in and proposing to cut their pay for it | Fortune
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Germany already told its workers to ditch four-day weeks and work-life balance. Now the government wants to cut their pay for calling in sick, too.
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    What’s the German word for ‘a government in the dire need of change’?

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      I would call it Umsturzbedürftig, meaning something along the line of in need of a revolt/revolution.

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      Change to what? The current situation looks like this:

      • The conservatives (CDU) are currently in charge on an anti-labor and no progress route
      • Socialists (SPD) are in coalition with conservatives and do not oppose
      • Ecologists (Grüne) are hated with only 14%
      • Communists (Linke) are barely visible these days (10%) because of internal conflicts
      • Fascists (AfD) are leading in election researches

      This doesn’t look good in any way. The conservatives know very well that no matter what they do, they will be in the next government…

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        Calling the SPD socialist is a really big stretch

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          They are right leaning conservatives that happily bend over for CDU, but pretend to be a workers party.

          Calling “Die Linke” communist is also extremely disingenuous. Taxing the rich and capping rent are not communism

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            Exactly, Die Linke is what the SPD is supposed to be or was many many decades ago.

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        Shit, it looks like Höcke really will be Chancellor. History rhymes and Germans really do want to repeat the same mistakes.

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          @Tryenjer that I don’t believe (yet?). The recent vote in Hungary was #hopecore.

          My hope is that it showed a silent majority that showing up to vote _can_ make a difference.

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          why Höcke? It’s Weidel.

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        Commies + Nazies get more than 1/3 votes. Looks doomed asf.

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          “Die Linke” is not a communist party. You should be more concerned that two far-right party’s would have over 50% of seats combined

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            Moderate right wing parties don’t concern me as much as radical lunatics from either side.

            The subject of Ukraine is a litmus paper test for the party if they live in reality, and Linke doesnt pass.

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              Go back to reddit, even there you can learn that the horseshoe “theory” is bullshit.

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      Regierungswechselnotwendigkeit

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      Arschlochbande

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      Leck-Eier-Truppe

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      SchMerz

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        Wir leiden an Merzversagen

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      CDU-Geführt

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      Stümper

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      Merzkaput :)

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      CDU or SPD, or GroKo

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