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Rotating Shift Work
Mike McFarlin:
Either nights or days but please no more rotating shifts. Don't know when to eat, sleep, sh*t, f*ck, or whatever. You're system is always messed up.
U238235:
Thanks Roll. Wasn't sure if we were having smoke blown up our A** or what. I know that the people working on the Aggreement do not want 12's....
I've brought up the same point with working 56 hours in 7 days. Of course the hard liners say "but it is 2 seperate weeks". At least with 12's when you work 48 hours in a week, you get a premium for the extra 8 hours. All told, just the inherent extra $$ on 12's is equal to about 3% of base yearly wage. PLUS, we would get 16 extra vacation hours because we have 4 "floaters" and they are full day vacations with only 8 hours charged (get regular pay for other 4 hours).
Anyway, thanks again. I have to go lay down to get ready for my lovely 3/1 double tonight. I LOVE 8's!!
Roll Tide:
One more monetary bennie of 12's: if you are on 6 crew 8's, you have a week of "Support" built into the schedule. This gives the company enough flexibility to not have you work on your holiday for either the Support or Training weeks. That means you observe 2/6 of the holidays typically.
Due to limitations of 12's, you will probably average being holiday off less than once per year. That means more money for you.
With a built in 7 or 8 day break in the schedule, 12's are great for time away from the plant. If you take vacation adjacent to your 7 (or 8) days off, you are gone for 14 days for only 36 or 40 hours vacation charged (depending on the specifics of the schedule)!
It takes years to go on 12's most plants, but those crusty old hard-core give me 8's or death types figure out real quick which is better. Plenty of them have said they would retire today if we went back to 8's tomorrow, because they enjoy their days off so much. (Turkey Point went back to 8's, and many of them have left!)
illegalsmile:
--- Quote from: Mike McFarlin on Sep 14, 2007, 12:04 ---Either nights or days but please no more rotating shifts. Don't know when to eat, sleep, sh*t, f*ck, or whatever. You're system is always messed up.
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It's easy, Spankster......you do all that stuff at work, on the clock.
mattrev:
--- Quote from: U238235 on Sep 14, 2007, 11:51 ---we have an Ops agreement that we vote on yearly that includes a vote for schedules. To work any schedule other than rotating 8's requires 75% majority. last year 73% wanted 12's and it failed. we are being told that the International mandates the 75%.
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The plant I'm at (IBEW) only requires a majority. Goes by department. Some departments are 5 shift, some 6 and some more than that.
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