At the end of January I got a new job, I’ll call it job B, a step up from being an operator to beginning to actually be able to call myself a machinist. This new job was four 10’s M-Th with a dollar more per hour. Seemed like a nice change from my old schedule, which was 6hrs Wednesday and three 12’s Th-Sat.
In the finals weeks of my old job, I’ll call this job A (they were going out of business) the COO and head programmer from Job B came through to talk with most of us, encouraging us to apply as they were looking to grow their machine shop.
Now getting to the point, the schedule of four 10’s was the “standard” hours for the shift. On my second day I was informed we were currently doing five 10’s. I was fine with that, it’s not two bad.
Two weeks after that we were informed we would be changing to four 11’s M-Th with at least 2 people (9 on the shift) volunteering to come in on Friday’s for 8 hours.
And again two weeks after that, we are required to do two 12’s and two 11’s with the same volunteering for Friday’s.
Annddd again, two weeks after that (yesterday), still the two 12’s and two 11’s though Fridays are now mandatory. 4 of us one week, the other 5 the next week.
When I got a job offer after I interviewed I signed an offer of employment that stated four 10 hour days. So I’m getting tired of the steadily increasing hours. Is there anything that can be done in a situation like this?