Hey, John on the Sunset Coast,

I've never had a union job, which may be why I didn't think of that 8-hour-per-day limit before time-and-a-half kicks in.

Many years ago, when I was technically unemployed and putting in long hours as a street musician, I was a member of the Communications Workers division of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or "Wobblies"). I didn't go out of my way to join this legendary radical group ~ a local organizer in San Francisco dropped a membership card and lapel pin in my guitar case in lieu of cash.

Hey, we're daydreaming here anyway, right? If a nationwide changeover to the four-day workweek were ever to actually happen, revisons to union rules would be just one of many changes that would have to be accepted.

I'm glad for you that you no longer have a work week. I just turned 60 a few weeks ago, so I have a few more years to toil my life away before I got to that point (if ever). I was involuntarily taken out of the workforce a couple of years ago by the levee failures that occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and was badly spoiled by an early taste of retirement. I'm back at work now, and I hate it...

PS: Is the "Sunset Coast" the west coast of the US, or of Florida?