> Did anyone see the story on US working hours in today's Financial
> Times? It points out that El Salvador, Indonesia, and Mongolia have
> more mandatory paid leave time than the US. The front-page lead-in
> to the story says:
>
> "No rest for Americans -- Though the president holidays like a
> Frenchman."
>
> Priceless!
If we had a labor movement in the USA, that would be on a placard at a workers' demonstration.
The Sandwichman did a montage of Economist fragments on "the lump of labour" for MRZine.org. Maybe, I'll ask him to do another montage, one of fragments on "the best-rested president in US History" (at <http://news.ft.com/cms/s/49d8ed5e-12a8-11da-8cc3-00000e2511c8.html>) and the most overworked workers in the West.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>