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On May 29, 1869, Borie enforced full pay and the eight-hour work day at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for mechanics and laborers for work per diem. Workers would receive unpaid backpay dating from May 19. Borie gave specific instructions: 1. Workers were to arrive at precisely 7:45 AM 2. Workers were to start work at 8:00 AM and work until 12:00 PM 3.
The Yard was built under the direction of Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813, served 1798-1801), as the first U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and heading the also new U.S. Department of the Navy in the presidential administration of the second President, John Adams (1735-1826, served 1797-1801), under the supervision of the Yard's first commandant ...
Commodore Isaac Hull left the Navy Yard in September 1835, never to return. However, the regulation regarding the workers' lunch restrictions remained in place, and the work hours continued the same until 1840. [68] [69] For Navy Yard workers, the strike of 1835 revealed the weakness and tenuous nature of their bargaining situation. As day ...
Historical photos part of donations by the family of Fernando W. Hartford and William Upton of Concord. When FDR visited Portsmouth and Naval Shipyard. 1932 visit to city documented in recent ...
Blue Jacket (1745–1810), Shawnee war chief known for his defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country Charles Blue Jacket (1817–1897), 19th-century Shawnee chief in Kansas, and Methodist Minister Jim Bluejacket (1887–1947), one of the first Native Americans to play in major league baseball
Images of the President of the International Longshoremen's Association meeting with former President Donald Trump circulated on social media as the union went on strike Tuesday.. The images are ...
[1] [3] O'Brien resigned from Local 25 and Joint Council 10 on March 1, 2022, in order to serve full-time as General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. [4] O'Brien was sworn into office as the 11th General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 22 ...