I'm gonna try to keep this short as this is more of a rant than anything.
TL;DR : Employees working too much overtime, and it's directly causing accidents and injuries to occur.
I work for a fragrance and flavor manufacturer that has been mandating overtime way too frequently like every week.
I made it clear to my supervisor that I couldn't work the additional 8hrs (I work 40hrs already) which he has seemed to not have any problems with. (For now)
But the problem I'm seeing is from the individuals that are actually working overtime. Accidents and injuries have been more and more frequent, last week we had two huge spills a loss of 100kilos (during an overtime shift).
Two people hurt themselves today, one breaking a leg from a faulty dolly and a drum landing on it.The other slipping in a puddle of water he forgot to clean up fell and hurt his back (both working overtime)
And the higher ups felt we needed to have a spur of the moment meeting to address what went wrong and how to avoid it happening again. (Told us to be careful and take it slow)
I feel overwhelmed sometimes from the 40hrs I normally work. Once in awhile taking a mental health day to get back on track. I wish there was something I could do for my co-workers. There was only one time we banded together against them forcing us to work on Saturday and no one showed up.
That one act was so powerful that the plant manager decided not to mandate Saturdays anymore. Now its an extra 8hrs during the week so you would come in early or come in late.
Don't even know what I'm looking for here. I feel unionizing is out of the question when everyone isn't on board and too many people rather just keep their heads down rather than speak up.