[gas0linealley]

"On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day, and cut shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, most soon followed suit."

Better pay and fewer hours equals greater productivity. Thank you for supporting organized labor's claim.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Boy, you're a real cherry picker. I can always tell when the other guy doesn't have much ammo in his argument. You ignore half the factual information, and distort the rest.

That's not organized labor's claim, or their aim. Unions are after more pay and LESS output, not more productivity. Hence their demands to limit automation, and keep outdated job rules like fireman and more longshoreman than needed long past their usefulness.