French workers fight to their 35-hour work week, more or less.

In the US, where the government has abandoned workers, the 40-hour work week has been lost.

Limiting the work week is a way to give employment to more people. If the minimum wage and other public services (including medical care and education) are sufficient, it reduces poverty.

With all the increased efficiency of 60 years of technological advance, should poor Americans have to work longer hours now just to get by? That is a sign of the wrongs of our plutocratic government.

Businesses argue, "If you do this, you will lose the competition against other countries that allow businesses to make workers work longer and spread poverty there." I turn this around, and ask, why do those governments serve their people badly? Obviously, because they are taking the advice of those businesses.

Instead of corporate-power treaties such as TPP, we need workers-power treaties that will punish governments that don't support their own people against dooH niboR (Robin Hood in reverse).