America's prosperity has been achieved on the backs of generations who took on thankless tasks and completed them, day in and day out.
Forty-hour work weeks, overtime pay, vacations, pensions and safety are just some of the reasons we are beholden to the men and women and labor unions who took a stand and demanded better working conditions. They are the reason Labor Day became a federal holiday way back in 1894.
I never quite understood what he did. His job was to set up screw machines, which I assume meant prepare them to output whatever sort of screws they were making on a particular day.When I was 6, Alcoa moved my dad’s department from New Jersey, where we lived, to Lancaster. My parents weighed the pros and cons of moving. New Jersey was home to their brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends, but for people who grew up in the Depression working for a company like Alcoa meant security.
Dad took his skills and found a job with Penguin Industries in Coatesville, which required him to fight the tourist traffic on Route 30 day after day. He continued that well past standard retirement age.
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