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STRESS-O-METER SPEAK UP ACTION GUIDE
TITLE PUNCHING OUT  page 3 of 3
SUBHEAD Weekly Answers to
Office Quandries
AUTHOR Professor
Peter Rachleff

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While the details have yet to be released, it has been advertised as giving workers new rights to refuse overtime. Other recent strikes, such as the UPS strike last summer, demanded the creation of more full-time jobs, another way to reduce heavy overtime.

The fact that you are in a union gives you a great opportunity. Although your United Paperworkers local might have given management the right to schedule overtime at will, you -- the members of the union -- could direct your leadership that, in the next contract, you want new rights to refuse overtime. Maybe you also need to demand that the company do some new hiring, add some women and men to your ranks so that the rest of you don't have to work so much. The creation of more jobs, having more time to spend with your families, now those ought to be some demands that will make sense to other workers in the plant, their families, and the community around you.

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