Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world.

[Demonaut]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/04/is-it-great-to-be-a-worker-in-the-u-s-not-compared-to-the-rest-of-the-developed-world/?utm_term=.acd69cd2b2ee
" So why does a large subset of workers continue to feel left behind? We can find some clues in a new 296-page report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a club of advanced and advancing nations that has long been a top source for international economic data and research. Most of the figures are from 2016 or before, but they reflect underlying features of the economies analyzed that continue today.

In particular, the report shows the United States’s unemployed and at-risk workers are getting very little support from the government, and their employed peers are set back by a particularly weak collective-bargaining system."

[Soph0571]

1. As a Brit I can affirm this

Although we have a problem with a growth in what they call zero hours contract— generally our employment rights, protections and entitlements are much stronger than in the

US

[Sherman A1]

2. Sad, but hardly a

Surprise.