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India: ambulance workers strike amidst not receiving salary for four months, 12-hour work shifts, and no provision for social security benefits (uniglobalunion.org)

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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's actually kind of amazing that they were able to survive and keep working for 4 months.

In America that would likely mean that most of the people either quit to go look for a job that actually pays or ended up homeless or starving to death.

[–] QualityOfLife@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

America has a lot of the individualism mindset, or people are simply too far from their families. India still has a strong sense of community, although it is slowly vanishing year by year.

A decade ago I saw people taking the misfortunate into their own homes, to give them shelter and food (temporarily of course). But not anymore, because they're worried about theft and other crimes.