1st Year Apprentice on a 60/60/50 Call — Can I Be Forced to Work Saturdays?
The job I’m on is a 60/60/50 but I haven’t worked a Saturday yet, I work 50 hours a week(5’10s) but I need the weekends. Since I’m a first year apprentice I didn’t take the call I got placed there and my foreman says I need to start working the Saturdays or else the GF is going to have a talk with me. I hit up the hall and they said OT is not a requirement. In the PLA it says the call is for 5’8s but they can change that to 6’10s at their discretion. Honestly I’m struggling with the 50 hours let alone 60. Does this mean I have to work the 60 hour weeks or do I have ground to stand on? What’s the best way of going about this? I should add I’ve been there 2 months with absolutely nothing to do, no material, no plans, no info. Slowly but surely we’ve gotten tools, carts, gangbox but no work. They tell me to just look busy. They say it’ll pick up soon but I’m not sure they’ve been saying that since I started. I would ask the JATC to just put me somewhere else but this job comes with an extra $10 an hour incentive pay and I don’t want to lose the extra cash if I don’t have to
Edit: appreciate all the replies!