Probably because they preferred 8 hour days plus OT :-) for non professional jobs often its the OT/Spanish Practices where you make bank.
I have a mate (who's now in hr/ir) who started as an erector in heavy engineering some of the story's he tells abut the 70's even the tea boy got £900 as a bung .
Yeah, I did construction for a while, and everyone was kind of happy when we had 6/12s during crunch time. Sure, it sucked while you were doing it, but man that overtime.
I have a mate (who's now in hr/ir) who started as an erector in heavy engineering some of the story's he tells abut the 70's even the tea boy got £900 as a bung .