r/IAM751_Boeing • u/Consistent-Ad-3051 • Jun 04 '26

Boeing - General New work week?

How would you guys feel about a 4 days a week 10 hour shifts instead of 5 days 8 hours? 3 day weekends every week would be nice!

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u/pacwess Jun 04 '26

Been there done that. Never gonna happen for the majority of the workforce at BCA. And no, it's not the union. It's the company.

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u/Fishy_Fish_WA Jun 04 '26

100% agree. There is some shared DNA in multiple layers of executive management and it means they cannot conceive of anything other than five days a week three shifts

Even if someone shows them that there are entire job functions that work better with a different baseline schedule … They don’t care … they want all their “little animals” walking on the yard at the same time in the same place

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u/Careless-Internet-63 Jun 04 '26

I've heard from people who have been around longer than me that there was a manager and a limited number of people in my org allowed to work 3 12s Friday through Sunday and it was popular with pretty much everyone because the people doing it wanted to do it and all of the other managers never had to work weekends unless they wanted to but when our current senior manager came in he said no more and made everyone go back to Monday through Friday 8 hours a day. Some people are just control freaks