They enjoy short workdays, are on the job only nine and a half months a year and thus earn $2,160 for every week they work.
This continued after the strike, when national labor legislation required shorter workdays.
Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.
On March 1925, the mine workers went on strike to demand higher pay, a shorter workday, and better working conditions.
It would be a short workday, he told them.
His dead aim on sanitation workers was shrewd; their full pay for short workdays is inexcusable, and obvious.
This led to increased wages and improved working conditions, including shorter workdays, as well as periodic strikes.
Strikers sought asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union.
One recent Wednesday, she had a comparatively short workday, attending a class and three rehearsals over more than eight hours.
Several hundred gendarmes drove their service vehicles to the force's national headquarters in a protest demanding better pay and shorter workdays.