[expat_panama]

...people can’t live on the proceeds from merely working thirty hours

Through out this whole history of labor leaders calling for a shorter workday, somehow the union bosses always assumed that the paycheck would stay big while work hours got small.  They never saw a problem w/ that and were always dismissive of concerns over production and business' labor costs.

Ignore reality and it bites.

[tacticalogic]

Through out this whole history of labor leaders calling for a shorter workday, somehow the union bosses always assumed that the paycheck would stay big while work hours got small.

I don't think they really gave a rat's ass about the paychecks. They were assuming the union dues would stay the same, and the companies would have to hire more workers, so there'd be more of them.