he also increased the speed of the assembly lines by 15%.
No such thing as a lunch break or a coffee break in Ford plants. Eight hours on the assembly line was expected.
To go to the bathroom, your immediate supervisor had to take your spot on the line. Ford put company police in the bathrooms to make sure, as soon as you were done, your butt was back on the assembly line, Again, no union involved.
“No such thing as a lunch break or a coffee break in Ford plants.”
I never said the man was perfect.
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I had a landlord in Santa Barbara, who loathed Ford and all of his works, for the reasons you cite. He had worked at Ford’s years before and never forgave him for the conditions on the line.