• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I’m going to assume this was a call fo violence and the chicken shit mods deleted it.

    All rights are won through violence, and we’ve lost for the last 100 years.

    • Instigate@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Not all rights are won through violence. In Australia, the union movement has managed to secure the following through peaceful means, specifically through lobbying, striking and peaceful protest:

      • 40 hour work week; overtime for hours worked beyond this
      • sick leave and annual leave
      • maternity and paternity leave
      • Medicare, our semi-universal public healthcare
      • enforceable safety standards at work
      • compensation for injury at work
      • our ‘award’-based system of minimum pay and conditions per field
      • federally mandated superannuation (forced retirement saving paid by your employer, tax free)
      • protections against unfair dismissal

      While not all rights are gained through violence all rights are limited and revoked by violence, in particular state-sponsored violence.