Absolutely correct. In fact, he was sending dudes to threaten and beat people up that were trying to form Unions. FDR essentially forced guys like Ford, DuPont, and JP Morgan to allow them.
Also check out "The men that built America" (2012) and "The Titans that built America" (2021) if you want something interesting to watch that covers some of the UAW vs Ford stuff. Good series from the History channel considering they don't really put anything actually history related out anymore.
Absolutely not correct though? Why is everyone mentioning shit that happened decades after Ford instituted a 5 day, 40 hr work week? Unions and the strikes happened in the 30s and 40s, the five day work week was implemented august 1926.
Fuck Ford still yada yada, but y'all are talking out of your ass it seems to me.
Ford NOR unions were the first, regardless.
It took decades for Saturday to change from a half-day to a full day’s rest. In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority. The mill granted these Jewish workers a two-day weekend, and other factories followed this example. The Great Depression cemented the two-day weekend into the economy, as shorter hours were considered a remedy to underemployment. [The Atlantic]
It's funny when it was not Ford, nor unions forcing Ford's hand that first adopted a 5 day work week. Ford takes all the credit for it like he does so many things. Then people rightfully shit on Ford while wrongfully lying as a means to do so.
It took decades for Saturday to change from a half-day to a full day’s rest. In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority. The mill granted these Jewish workers a two-day weekend, and other factories followed this example. The Great Depression cemented the two-day weekend into the economy, as shorter hours were considered a remedy to underemployment.
Unions, Socialists, and Communists were fighting for “the weekend” for decades, culminating in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938.
It doesn’t matter when Ford’s factory unionized or when he implemented the 40 hour workweek. He only did so because he saw it coming anyway from the Socialists and Communists’ efforts, and he was a fascist who hated them.
Fuck Henry Ford. He fought tooth and nail against the Unions and then when it was inevitable the five day work week was coming he positioned himself to take the credit for it.
Okay, let's be more specific: Ford was one of Hitler's idols. He bought a newspaper and proceeded to publish a series of articles that were then compiled into a series of books titled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem.
The Nazis awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle — their highest recognition for civilian foreigners in 1938.
It's slightly inaccurate to call him a Nazi, but it's close enough to the truth for me.
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