<div class="view-content"><div> <p class="first">French with eng. subs

The Factory - Video Clip of a song by the French group, La Canaille.<br>The song pictures the everyday life at the assembly line, with its repetitive rhythm and its alienation.

In the last few years, the workers' situation in the retail sector has dramatically worsened. While the workload is approaching the limits of what is physically bearable, the gap between wages and living costs is constantly growing. All the while company profits constantly increase: between 2000 and 2006 they have risen by 64.3%. When at the end of 2006 employers wanted to cut late and night-time bonuses, to many employees this was the straw that broke the camel's back: the longest and toughest wage dispute in the German retail sector began.

The combination of three factors would, in Schui's view, make full employment possible: a) more growth/rising hourly wages, b) shorter working hours with compensatory wage increases, c) expansion of the public service. Sweden could serve as a model, since it has a larger public service sector, higher taxes and, at the same time, lower unemployment.

11-13-2004 - Interview with Christoph Spehr. <br> It would be a good idea to establish shorter working hours for everyone. This would enable people to combine different types of work and would put them in a more equal position.