In April, a month before UPS eliminated the overnight sorting shift at its massive hub in Maspeth, Queens, around 120 full-time warehouse workers were given a choice: they could take on fewer hours and become part-timers, move to a different facility or, as around 75 of the workers chose, split their eight-hour shifts into two.
Since the overnight shift was eliminated on May 10, those 75 workers who previously worked from around 6:30 p.m. into the early morning now must leave their posts around 10 p.m. and return to the facility around 4 a.m. to work five more hours.
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