-——Involuntary part-time is becoming the new norm for low-wage workers-——
The concept of part time is archaic. There is no part time any more, there is only time. Further, time for many can not exceed thirty hours per week. The union goal of a thirty hour week has been accomplished.
The problem is that people can’t live on the proceeds from merely working thirty hours.
Through out this whole history of labor leaders calling for a shorter workday, somehow the union bosses always assumed that the paycheck would stay big while work hours got small. They never saw a problem w/ that and were always dismissive of concerns over production and business' labor costs.
Ignore reality and it bites.