Other FReepers have said that Sunday work on ships is SOP. Seems odd to me.
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In contract PLUS overruns, cost plus jobs etc one can’t let that TRIPLE time just sit there.
In the US Navy Shipyard Yokosuka Japan it would take 3 or 4 people to ‘change a light bulb’ because the Union demanded that any work done in a foreign port had to pay the same as a union stateside worker.
When you figure that ONE of our dollars was worth 360 yen, we couldn’t very well pay shipyard workers in Japan the prevailing wage for the US so it had to be split up amongst the Japanese workers.
(Imagine what a Japanese National making 10 bucks an hour in 1957 would do to their economy.
The old lawyer ‘joke’ comes to mind... Lawyer Calhoun was the only lawyer in town and did very well. One day a second lawyer moved in and now BOTH of them darn near own the whole county)
About what I expected. Thanks!