Post by: AngelOfThyNight on September 04, 2021, 04:51:39 PM
Before our nation's Labor Day tradition began in the 1880s, laborers commonly logged 70-hour workweeks in dangerous conditions -- until they organized to change that. Their unions eventually created the work-life balance we consider the norm today: a 40-hour workweek and two-day weekend, a minimum wage and safe working conditions. Still, there's one group of workers who, this past year, recorded 56-hour workweeks with zero days off.
Source: This Labor Day, meet America's newest union-in-the-making (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/Z-YBqDPbdQ8/index.html)