[pefloresjr]

I have relatives (they're still alive so not ancestor status yet) who worked in the canneries too and overtime wouldn't have been a problem.  There were always plenty of workers lined up hoping for work but the canneries didn't want to run three shifts per day.  If they had to pay overtime, they would have hired more workers and still been able to process 24 hours a day. 

Even with overtime rules now and some limits on over fishing of forage fish, the industry it still causing forage fish populations to collapse far beyond their normal cycles.  As a result, the sardine fishery is again shut down.  Seal lions and pelicans are starving.  Paying workers overtime has nothing to do with it. 

http://e360.yale.edu/features/a_little_f...west_coast

Cheers,
Pete F.

[pefloresjr]

I have relatives (they're still alive so not ancestor status yet) who worked in the canneries too and overtime wouldn't have been a problem.  There were always plenty of workers lined up hoping for work but the canneries didn't want to run three shifts per day.  If they had to pay overtime, they would have hired more workers and still been able to process 24 hours a day. 

Even with overtime rules now and some limits on over fishing of forage fish, the industry it still causing forage fish populations to collapse far beyond their normal cycles.  As a result, the sardine fishery is again shut down.  Seal lions and pelicans are starving.  Paying workers overtime has nothing to do with it. 

http://e360.yale.edu/features/a_little_f...west_coast

Cheers,
Pete F.