U.S. workweek well past 40 hours

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A survey by Ohio's WorkPlace Media reveals that 92 percent of employed U.S. residents work more than 40 hours per week.

Americans have always been known as workaholics, Dan Wheeler, vice president of WorkPlace Media, said Monday in a release. Our new survey definitively supports that the 40-hour work week is of a bygone era.

The survey found that 69 percent of the nation's workers labor 40 to 49 hours per week, 18 percent work 50 to 59 hours per week and 5 percent work more than 60 hours per week.
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We are being worked to death

They cut out an employee and put the duties on two others. Many employers will fire you for reported overtime, so overtime is not reported. Just more $ for corporate.

Hourly workers have long worked extra shifts and not used vacation days because they needed that overtime to feed their families. Going without overtime for those two princely weeks of vacation simply hasn't been possible for too many. With the disgraceful changes in employee classification, hourly workers with educations will be reclassified as management, put on salary, forced to work hours that haven't been seen since the industrial revolution, and given no say in their hours nor additional compensation for being worked to death.

Our parents and grandparents fought hard for the 40 hour work week. All it took was 6 years of rule by frontmen for the rich to do away with everything they worked for, humane hours, full benefits, retirement pensions, vacation time, and paid holidays. Our right to unionize has been compromised by refusal to enforce labor laws against the holy corporation.

We are going to have to fight these battles all over again, I'm afraid. Ousting the GOP from the House was only a baby step. Now we have to convince the overpaid bastards in power that we have rights, we have lives, and that we MATTER outside the corporate machine.

I just hope we have the guts for it.

No overtime. Just do it. It is not a kind picture out there in the work place except for the owners.

in W's world. Yes, we will have to fight again. Hopefully the very young will choose to fight rather than just accept a reduced standard of living by the working class. I don't know.

Make housing and healthcare more affordable. Those are the two out of control expenses. The rest the working class can handle.

No, more like slave-aholics. Americans are doing this just to get by, not to live beyond their means.

That's how long it takes the average taxpayer to earn what must be paid in taxes. Five months and three days in 2006.

To be more accurate, we are being worked to death...by the government.

Peace.

At my income level I doubt I'm paying 5/12 or nearly half my income in taxes.

As usual, a vague word like "average" applies to very few people precisely. But it does give an idea of how much the hidden boss (Uncle Sam and his local and state relatives) causes us to work.

Peace.

I think the highest Federal tax bracket is about 34%. Add 8% sales tax then property tax might make it around your estimate, but that is only for the top tax bracket, the rich. I'm sure your statement is true on average, but that is because the rich pay most the taxes, so average and common are two different things. I do not think that is true for the vast majority of people.

The biggest burdens are housing costs, healthcare, and fuel for cars and homes, IMHO.

Edit: I did forget to mention state tax above, sorry. Maybe seeing a link with statistics would help sway my thinking.

Good catch...thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow. :-)

Anyway, here's a link that gives a good overview.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day

And here's the British link:

http://www.adamsmith.org/tax/

It also supports my idea that the date is "skewed upward by the inclusion of very wealthy taxpayers."

The thing is I know this might sound corny but I feel like I am getting a bargain for the amount that I pay in taxes, getting roads, military, 'some' care for the poor, libraries, mass transit, police, courts, prisons, education, environmental standards (in theory), etc, etc.

As I said it's really the costs of just a few basic necessities that really need to be looked at. I personally feel everyone should feel secure in having healthcare and a home to live in.

Have a good night.

Heh heh, I have to say, upon contemplation, I do agree with you, not only about what we and others get for what we pay, but also about it really being only the costs of a few basic necessities that need to be looked at.

It's fun, of course, to grumble about taxes. Some things won't change. :-)

Good night to you as well...

How many months of pay go towards the bully forces. What is liberation day
from miltiary welfare support?

and 5 percent work more than 60 hours per week.

Yep, and it's not for a vacation home and a luxury car--it's for survival.

took power. It's not a fluke that the republican agenda is cheap labor!

in the short time i've been in the full-time workforce. there's alwasy too much to do and not enough people and yet they always bitch at us about overtime but get pissed when i say i'm leaving because i'm going into overtime.

i'm fucked no matter what i do.