But I know what happens when you start working those kinds of hours. Your home life (if you have one) starts to disintegrate. Fatigue, missed responsibilities. My experience as a spouse, if my husband starts working like that, the conflicts start to increase and when he stops, he's so exhausted that he can't pick up the tasks that he's been neglecting. Just nasty. Apparently these companies don't want to take on the risk of hiring new people and (I know this one too), the existing employee may be too intimidated to object, fearing for their own jobs.
Doesn't sound like labor unions involved here. Aren't these the issues that organized labor was meant to deal with? I know that, in my previous job, I explored organizing, if only to really tick off the free-market guys who owned the company. But there were many many obstacles that couldn't be overcome. I was paid by a third party, the 'industry' was not recognized, the people working were in different states. Most of all, when I mentioned it to some co-workers I trusted (and trusted me), nobody wanted to take the risk. Everybody was too afraid that they would lose their jobs.
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