Ford reaches tentative UAW contract.
Who would of thunk? How would you like to get a $9000 ratification bonus on top of your raise along with no healthcare cost increases or changes in coverage? And $3500 if you're a temp? Anyone w...
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Huntindog wrote:
You seem to want to point to a single point in time when the 40 hour week became the standard. And you want it to be Ford in 1926.. And you do not want to give unions any credit for it. The truth is that this was a HEAVY lift, and it took a long time, with Unions being involved in the effort long before Ford got on the bandwagon. The tide was already shifting when he made his move. If you were to actually read my link with all of the different events and time periods, you would see that unions had been involved it the effort for a long time. And that Fords move was NOT the end of the effort. That happened quite a few years later. And yes unions were involved in the effort BEFORE, and AFTER Fords move.
I give Ford credit for being an astute buisiness man and recognizing that he could get great press by accepting the inevitable before many others... He got to own the moment in time. That behaviour is still going on today.
For example:
Read the news and you will see quite a few companies are jumping on the 15.00 HR minimum wage bandwagon. It hasn't happened nation wide..... YET. But it does appear that this too will happen at some point. So these companies are jumping on board early for the favorable press.... And yes most Unions support this effort.... I personally wish they wouldn't, but they are.
I said he created it as in the first to initiate it in his factories without union presence. So me saying that Henry Ford was the first to create the 40 hour work week in his factories was false? And what evidence do you have that he only did it for publicity? Everything I read said he did it for other reasons like believing that people would buy more if they had more leisure time on Saturday. And being that he was very religious, he believed they should go to church on Sunday.
Can you please show this evidence so I can be enlightened.
Also, the unions never fought for a 5 day 40 hour work week like Henry Ford first created in his plants. They may have been instrumental in the 8 hour work day, but not a 5 day 40 hour week. It was Henry Ford who did that first. Is this incorrect?
