What the capitalist State giveth, it can taketh away. It only gives in to pressure from the working class expressing a conscious, organizational power which forces change. When that expression is withdrawn, the capitalist State goes back to taking human life's time and skills for the dominant class.
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Amid concern that fatigue leads to accidents, the European Union parliament voted Wednesday to abolish loopholes that give member states — especially Britain — a way around the bloc’s 48-hour maximum workweek.
The dispute strikes at the heart of a growing debate within the EU on balancing labor and leisure, profits and safety.
The measure would get rid of a clause that allows employees to work longer hours if they agree with their employer to do so. It still needs backing from EU governments to become law, and Britain may have enough countries on its side to block it.
British industry cites 'freedom of choice' Still, Wednesday’s vote is likely to embolden Britain’s strong Euro-skeptic camp in a crucial year of referendums on a proposed European constitution that envisions ever closer European integration.
In London, Digby Jones, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said the proposed labor changes interfere with the “freedom of choice of the average British subject and that is something we’ve got to stop.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7819186/
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