Physical Plant has announced plans to:
- Move 80% of Building Services staff to the night shift
(11pm-7am)
- Increase their coverage area by 4,000 square feet per worker or 19%
Employees have told the administration that night shift will:
- Disrupt our child care, transportation, and second jobs*
- Put a strain on our marriages and families
- Jeopardize our health, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which recommends against permanent night shift
- Place women in empty buildings in the middle of the night
- Decrease, not increase, the amount and quality of work, due to chronic lack of satisfying sleep
- Based on UF’s previous night shift experiment, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in electrical and other costs
*UF custodians start at less than $12,800 annually, $2,000 less than custodians at other state agencies.
Administrators say that this is what YOU, their customers, want—for custodial services to be provided "transparently."
Please let the administration know that custodians are not
a "disruption" and deserve to be treated with dignity:
- Call UF President Charles Young at (352) 392-1311
- E-mail him at ceyoung@ufl.edu
- Write him at Box 113150, Gainesville, 32611
- Sign the petition being circulated
- Write letters to the editor
