To get where? Reasonable working conditions? You must be joking. As I said in the other thread, I’m agnostic on unions today, but to suggest we’d have occupational health and safety standards, the 40-hour work week, a living wage, or any of the things that make our working lives tolerable is absurd. We got them from unions.
To get to what aruvqan pined for:
The best way to achieve these things is free-market capitalism. Unions are welcome to be part of it.
I have no doubt that my great-grandchildren will regard the 8-hour workday and the 40-hour work week as horrible exploitation.
Hardly. It has, as you referenced in your own OP, been around since 1937. Since the number of exempt workers has exploded, it’s hardly likely to be modified downward.
If Americans are working 20-hour weeks in 2092, I’ll come back here and crow about my prognosticating abilities. Until then, we’ll just have to wait and see what technological innovations and increases in worker productivity bring us.
I’ll hold you to that. 