***You make overtime?***
When I worked in a chicken hatchery, no. Straight time for weekends and holidays.
When I worked in the power plants, yes it was union and the plant had to be manned 24/7. I loved the overtime and was willing to work others vacations and if they wanted off for the holidays.
I am now retired. No union pension, only savings from the OT.
Now go look at the state labor laws and see how many occupations are exempt from overtime.
Overtime for most workers is non-existent, so it isn’t really an honest argument. And how do you preserve the cultural fabric of the nation, if its cultural identity is subsumed by the corporatist mantra that everything must be 24/7? Its just turning the country into OWS anarchy, a mish-mash of nothing. No culture, no belief.