How do you explain 12 hour shifts in healthcare? Younger staff love them because of the extra day off. But as you get older it gets a lot harder, especially when we routinely work over our 12 hours. For teachers it’s about pay. Here in WI most rural teachers have to have a 2nd job. All the money goes to the top. Unions are mostly gone and the oligarchs are going to keep squeezing every cent they can out of the other 99%. This is part of the reason we have people revolting and blaming everyone but the 1% for their plight.