I don't remember, I thought he said 12 but I could be wrong. This was a week ago or so. All I know is that I'm working the jobs of two people at once, and nearing the last 10-15 mins, 2-3 more preloaders come to help finish and even sometimes supervisors. Just to avoid me getting deep into overtime and avoiding staffing any extra person. The belt I'm on is a wreck - it's only me on there. I total around 1200-1600 pieces and am "expected" to load all in 4.5 hours. While sorting also. Lol.
Hang in there. Don't speed up to try and finish both jobs. Work at your normal pace.
It's not uncommon to move people around to where the work is needed done now and then help at the end of the day.
If a sup is helping at the end of the day, you should be grieving that and be paid for the time he is working.
Don't expect anything to come out of that grievance. We can't force them to hire more people, but definitely file on the sup working.
Hopefully the staffing will improve, especially if both jobs aren't getting finished.