the eleven days

[kent mueller]

My take is that for instance on March 31, they declared it March 20, voiding
the eleven previous days. A very strange thing. Knowing employers, I
wouldn't be surprised if they took advantage of it. It took forever for
labor to get the eight hour day, etc.

At a newspaper where I worked, they took advantage of a situation that would
come up every seven years. If I recall, when Christmas itself fell on a
Sunday, the legal federal holiday would be Monday. They'd stick it to the
unionized workers by not paying them the holiday differential for actually
working on Christmas day itself. I think around 20 people were affected. The
Newspaper Guild itself paid the difference to the workers affected, and the
company came off as a shortsighted scrooge.

Kent


> From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:11:43 -0500
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Cc: david.casseres at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: the eleven days
> 
> David,
> 
> If yesterday was March 20th and today March 31st, would you expect to get
> paid for the eleven days that didn't exist?  Hourly workers were still
> paid for every hour they worked.
> 
> Toby
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:12:22 -0800 "David Casseres"
> <david.casseres at gmail.com> writes:
>> Working men did in fact lose 11 days' wages, I think.  The modern
>> American counterpart of this event is the twice-yearly twitch
>> between
>> Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time.  Most Americans are now
>> used
>> to this, and snicker at the few who still complain about it.  But
>> rural people do find themselves sending their kids off to school in
>> the dark, among other real inconveniences, for reasons that go
>> against
>> intuition.
> 
> 
> 
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