UK Proposal: 75% Wage Reduce to Fight Local weather Change
John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of Britain. By Transition Heathrow, CC BY 2.zero, Hyperlink
h/t James Delingpole – Britain’s Labour Opposition Occasion, which has an actual likelihood of successful the following UK election, is critically contemplating a suppose tank proposal to radically lower working hours and wages to cut back everybody’s carbon footprint.
Plan for 10-hour working week with 75% paycut beneath Labour
Martine Berg Olsen Monday 10 Jun 2019 7:54 am
The Labour Occasion is discussing plans to herald a 10-hour working week and slash pay by 75 per cent to sort out local weather change. The novel report titled The Ecological Limits of Work by the Autonomy Group states except present carbon emissions are lower there can be an ‘unprecedented lower within the financial exercise’.
It says the sustainable work week would seemingly be ‘nicely under 10 hours per week’.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who has beforehand backed a four-day working week, mentioned: ‘It is a very important contribution to the rising debate round free time and decreasing the working week.’ Leo Murray, adviser to Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis, mentioned: ‘I like this take quite a bit.’
Lewis has beforehand backed one other controversial report from the group on decreasing the working week.
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Learn extra: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/10/plan-10-hour-working-week-75-paycut-labour-9878450/
The complete report, “The Ecological Limits of Work”, is out there right here.
Underneath the subject “different issues”, the report authors categorical concern that their proposed lower may not be deep sufficient, as a result of folks working shorter hours is perhaps extra productive throughout the time they do work, which might cancel a number of the ecological “profit” of a shorter working week.
This isn’t a fringe proposal. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who praised the proposal, is a senior determine within the Labour Occasion, and has an actual likelihood of being put accountable for Britain’s banking system and financial system after the following election.
The report form of skips over points which could concern some employees, like how British employees already struggling gas poverty are alleged to heat their properties and feed their households with 75% much less cash, and the way they’re alleged to pay their mortgages and payments (perhaps all mortgages can be forgiven?), however I doubt the politicians contemplating this radical coverage proposal have ever personally skilled actual starvation, poverty or chilly.
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