"If you went back 10 years ago when we had close to 20 assembly plants, a lot of them were running on one or two shifts, " he said.

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Brody Shores, 20, a junior from Alexandria, Louisiana, volunteered two overnight shifts, taking on tasks such as helping frail and weary nursing home residents arriving by bus, organizing supplies of clothes and making sandwiches for evacuees.

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Industrial action centred on two specific issues - the introduction of afternoon shifts and worries about redundancies - but it also stemmed from a wider dispute.

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If Chrysler can sell enough of these new models to put its two U.S. car plants on three shifts, the profit will keep pouring in.

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The Rangers were pinned in their own end for much of the first two shifts as the Islanders kept the pressure on without scoring.

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Also during that pay period, one guard was listed on the staffing report as working two separate 36-hour shifts, and a total of nearly 140 hours in a two-week span.

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The move from double to single day shifts is taking place at Car Plant Two on the site at South Marston.

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