Over+Out.
17 sets of nights seems to be on everyones tongues at Swanwick too, however, a reliable source down here informed me that the number is a 'gentlemans agreement' and that the real number is somewhere around 23 sets.
The number permitted is so due to your weekly contractual hours (35 hours per week???), and that permenant nights takes you in excess of this, so a selection of spins thrown in occasionally keeps you even. However, the numbers at Swanwick just don't add up, and there will have to be bodies willing to do extra if we are going to have staff doing night shifts, or toward the end of the year, nightshifts won't exist with all the refusals. Catch 22, it'll screw the company into looking after us better, but will it screw ourselves first????????
On a side note, everyone rattles on about number of nights, why hasn't anyone tackled the extra half an hour on a Swanwick D2 spin, as surely this also adds extra onto the average weekly hours worked and busts the limit. Basically, by not doing nights and doing 2 D2's instead, you are only gaining one night not done, as you still get an extra hour from the spins???? Anyone understand my drivellish thinking into this, and am I right?????