Full-Time Work Returns to Northern Pacific Shops
South Tacoma railway workers see their hours increased as business picks up at the regional repair facility.
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Prosperity has hit the 900 employees of the Northern Pacific shops at South Tacoma. Notices were posted yesterday that the plant would go on full-time at once. Men who have been working eight hours a day and five days a week will work nine hours and six days, and men who worked nine hours and only five days will work ten hours and six days. The new order will materially increase the payroll at the shops and will stimulate business at South Tacoma immensely.
“The new order will materially increase the payroll at the shops and will stimulate business at South Tacoma immensely.”
The Northern Pacific shops were once the economic heart of South Tacoma, anchoring its development as a working-class neighborhood. Today, those massive rail yards have been repurposed into industrial and commercial spaces, reflecting the shift from heavy rail manufacturing to the modern service-based economy of Tacoma.
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