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Yeah but the United Mine Workers Association (a coal union) got us the eight hour workday - before that, they just exploited the shit out of you. "Back when th
by adamsea 9y ago
Yeah but the United Mine Workers Association (a coal union) got us the eight hour workday - before that, they just exploited the shit out of you.
"Back when the government first tracked workers' hours in 1890, full-time manufacturing employees worked a backbreaking 100 hours each week. Years of pressure from laborer organizers, along with changes from companies like Ford Motor, reformed working conditions in the U.S. and protected workers from schedules that endangered their health and safety."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-changed-how-americans-work.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/how-the-8-hour-workday-chang...
- maxxxxx 9y agoPeople are forgetting how life was when the capitalists got their way without any legal worker protections. Read about the conditions in british coal mines or in carnegie's steel mills. We should not go back to these days and unions are an important part of preventing that.
- maxk42 9y agoThe problem is I want to work ten hours a day. But my employer can't legally do that without paying massive penalties. So I have to take a part-time job on the side for much less money per hour.