First of all, as the title indicates, I'm a foreigner, so apologies if I make any mistakes.
As a foreigner, as a brazilian, I've been used to see northern countries, USA most of all, as the great bastion of freedom and success. Living and working looked easier, more dignified, and life feels more rewarding.
However, years ago, when I've finally got to visit US, everything felt off and the more I learned about working conditions, public health and other issues, I can't shake off the idea my country, and many others, have been fed a propaganda for decades.
Brazil, wich I will draw many comparisons since its my country, have a long dispute between the worker's class and the elite, but we have legislation that protects the workers, ensuring rights to us and for our families, giving us, for instance, time off when a child is born, to both parents.
We have an 1 hour to lunch per day to actually have a proper meal. And most of all, unions are not as demonized here as they are in the US. This really caught me off guard. Here, the elites try to take all the power they can from unions, but they fail most of the time.
Another point of content is tipping. Here, restaurants have to pay their workers their salary, and tipping is an extra that is distributed among workers. The very idea that tipping is the salary sounded alien and a complete bs to me, as it puts the responsability to pay wages to the customer instead of the owner of the business.
There are many points I can make, but why I, a foreigner, am talking about this? Its because of the US infuence.
On many ocasions, politicians of my country tries to take away worker's rights citing the US labor as an example. They say workers don't need to take so much time for a meal, unions have too much power and must be taken away. This has led to laws that took rights from the workers and weakened their cases on courts against abusive employers.
So, resisting and fighting for workers' rights in the US enforces the fight for workers' rights on many other countries. Continue fighting for your rights, fight to have more unions and don't stop until you are treated as humans. Your fight is of imense importance.