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As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers
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<blockquote data-quote="TimeForChange" data-source="post: 1118462" data-attributes="member: 45848"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Matt Taibi of Providence, R.I., routinely works 12-hour days as a driver for UPS. The company would rather pay him and other drivers overtime instead of hiring more workers.</span><span style="color: #000000">Taibi has no complaints about his pay. He makes $32.35 an hour, plus benefits, and has job security as a Teamster. But he wonders how much longer he can keep up the breakneck pace.</span><span style="color: #000000">“There's more and more push towards doing more with less workers,” said Taibi, 35. “There are more stops, more packages, more pickups. What's happening is that we're stretched to our limits and beyond.”</span></p><p>The whole story is here:</p><p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-harsh-work-20130407,0,5858057,full.story" target="_blank">As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers - latimes.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TimeForChange, post: 1118462, member: 45848"] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000]Matt Taibi of Providence, R.I., routinely works 12-hour days as a driver for UPS. The company would rather pay him and other drivers overtime instead of hiring more workers.[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]Taibi has no complaints about his pay. He makes $32.35 an hour, plus benefits, and has job security as a Teamster. But he wonders how much longer he can keep up the breakneck pace.[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]“There's more and more push towards doing more with less workers,” said Taibi, 35. “There are more stops, more packages, more pickups. What's happening is that we're stretched to our limits and beyond.”[/COLOR][/LEFT] The whole story is here: [url=http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-harsh-work-20130407,0,5858057,full.story]As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers - latimes.com[/url] [/QUOTE]
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