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To: clear who wrote (49884)	8/1/2013 12:16:16 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

You a masochist or what? More BS from the emotional thinker. If Ford didn't start the 40 work week, WHERE WAS IT BEFORE HE IMPLEMENTED IT? Don't you see how stupid you're being? Where was the 40 hour work week before Ford? +++ The Building Trades Council (BTC) of San Francisco, under the leadership of P.H. McCarthy, won the eight-hour day in 1900 when the BTC unilaterally declared that its members would work only eight hours a day for $3 a day. When the mill resisted, the BTC began organizing mill workers; the employers responded by locking out 8,000 employees throughout the Bay Area. The BTC, in return, established a union planing mill from which construction employers could obtain supplies — or face boycotts and sympathy strikes if they did not. The mill owners went to arbitration, where the union won the eight-hour day, a closed shop for all skilled workers, and an arbitration panel to resolve future disputes. In return, the union agreed to refuse to work with material produced by non-union planing mills or those that paid less than the Bay Area employers. By 1905, the eight-hour day was widely installed in the printing trades – see International Typographical Union (section) – but the vast majority of Americans worked 12-14 hour days.