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Re:Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off... by marincounty on Monday July 14, 2014 @04:20AM (#8030005)
Yea--4-10's. My day's union had a opportunity to work 4 days; and the membership refused? I still think the votes were rigged. These were San Francisco Electricians in the seventies.
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Re:Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off... by walshemj on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:15AM (#8030515)
Probably because they preferred 8 hour days plus OT :-) for non professional jobs often its the OT/Spanish Practices where you make bank.

I have a mate (who's now in hr/ir) who started as an erector in heavy engineering some of the story's he tells abut the 70's even the tea boy got £900 as a bung .

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Re:Sweden's Six-Hour Workday Experiment Officially Kicks Off... by waterlesscloud on Monday July 14, 2014 @11:26AM (#8031348)
Yeah, I did construction for a while, and everyone was kind of happy when we had 6/12s during crunch time. Sure, it sucked while you were doing it, but man that overtime.
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