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Unions. Unions won the five day eight hour workweek after heavy, sometimes bloody conflicts with employers. Before that it was common for workweek to be 10 or 12 hours a day.
Too many people are ignorant of the role Unions played in American history. I assume they were brought up in places where the GOP controls the schools.
I was actively taught in high school that "unions were nice, but not necessary any more, they get in the way of all our very cool free trade!"
Obviously, my thinking on that has changed a whole lot, but both my partner and I got fed that kind of rhetoric straight out of text books.
I'm guessing teacher unions weren't a thing where you were raised.
10-12 hours per day*, dangerous typo
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Technically, if your shift is long enough and timed properly, you can have daytime going in and coming out.
God bless unions. Now can they negotiate a four day work week?
The bad news is their power has been systematically eroded for a long time. The good news is they've made a bit of a comeback in the last couple of years. Hopefully this trend continues.
Grieved something recently and won a 3K payout and a workload change. It was great.
And no weekend. Basically almost your entire life would be working