What's Happening Present Day: Work Condition Edition?

We read about all these problems going on in the work world, but then realize, "Hey, this is happening to us right now." There are students working their heads off after classes trying to make money, or professors putting their students and their classes on top of their family time, and laborers doing overtime, yet being paid for half of that, and more, yet no one is getting paid enough. Everyone has yet been compensated for a raise, days off, or vacation time, or even a simple and kind gesture of "thank you". Saying "thank you" is such a small gesture but it goes such a long way. Just like, off topic, but how people compliment each other on a daily basis, and what a difference that makes on a person's life. And just like that, people deserve what they deserve, just like the money and time they give. 
The big example going on right now, to the Rutgers faculty, and them waiting on their raise, and about to protest. It is all a constitutional right, but I bring it back to the topic we read for today, and what we have been discussing throughout the semester. Taking in consideration that, bringing it back to the topic we discussed for today, and the reading, and how the essay, "Conceptualizing the Latina Experience in Care Work" written by Mary Romero, she explains how much these hard workers are undermined, especially for what they work hard for and what they deserve, they are especially not getting that. What is more horrifying is that these are women of color and categorized into people, but at the end of the day, we are all humans and we all deserve something in reward for what we do. Whether it be a labor worker or an astronaut, every single human being goes out there to do some type of work and whether it be their happiness or not, every worker deserves a right and a reward, or a million rewards. As it quotes, "Male workers no longer lead the immigration waves; the current trend is a 'feminization of migration'; women are now sending the remittance checks home" (Romero 268), these workers are focused on what they need and they categorize it into these abstract categories which should not be done at all. However, I wanted to connect this essay back to what is happening in the present day, because it is no different, because of the generation gap, or the thoughts, or the ideas that have not been put to rest with a solution. 

A Companion to Latina/O Studies, edited by Juan Flores, and Renato Rosaldo, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rutgers-ebooks/detail.action?docID=320058.