workers of the world...relax

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Mon Sep 30 13:01:08 PDT 2002


Some like overtime, but forced overtime was a big issue among workers.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:48:24PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> joanna bujes wrote:
>
> >1) Because there's no large, organized labor movement?
>
> UAW leaders wanted to make an issue of overtime, but there was no
> interest in it among the rank and file. Quite the contrary, the
> workers liked putting in long weeks and pulling down $100k/yr.
>
> Doug

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