 — Statement of Aims — | ||||
| The Shorter Work Week Network: * advocates a world-wide campaign for shorter working hours; * supports this campaign by creating and supporting Shorter Working Week Action Committees; * publicises on-going struggles over working hours and the structure of work, life and time. The Shorter Work Week Network is committed to progressively reducing work hours without loss of pay, to creating full employment, to uniting employed and unemployed workers, to emancipating labour and to starting the 21st Century in a civilised way. Subscribers to the SWW Network help determine its activity through the annual election of a network action committee and participation in its planning, review and implementation processes. SWWACs are autonomous groups of activists who subscribe to the SWW Network's objectives and work together to bring about progressive and general reductions in work hours, so all who need to work can do so. |
A shorter work week with flexibility for the employee and without loss of pay: * creates new work opportunities; * gives more leisure time to full-time workers; * allows us to fully exercise civic responsibility; * increases wages (hourly rates) for part-time workers; * ensures productivity leads to more recreation time, not more unemployment; * gives labour an incentive to improve practice; * gives capital an incentive to innovate; * puts people, not profits, at the centre of economics. The Shorter Work Week Network encourages you to participate in or to help establish SWWACs in your industry, locality or organisation. You can support the work of the SWW Network directly by taking out an annual supporter's subscription ($10 or $50 an organisation). Send your subscription, name, organisation, address, telephone number and e-mail address to: SWWN, PO Box 291, Belmore NSW 2192, Australia. | |||