I was hired as a PT 4 years ago. At that time I was told it might be "a year or two" before they could make me full time. I work for a newpsper as a platemaker. I average 32 hours; 2 other ladies in my department are FT and were there when I came. The press room is all full time all men. They recently downsized and now some of them work in the mailroom, for the same pay w/benefits even though they are not in the pressroom.

Here's the problem: I got an OK from my super to work some xtra hours in the mailroom and was doing this long before the pressroom was downsized. Now I'm told I can't work 40 hours--that it must be under 32. And yet they have me work the vacations/sick days for the other plateroom employees, so I have worked as much as 65 hours in one week.

I feel that because they are allowing the pressmen to work in the mailroom for 40 hours, they should do this for me too. One pressman says no because I was hired PT. But essentially the pressmen have BECOME pt. Right?
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It's not about the hours, it's why cant I be allowed to get up to 40 hours. The pressmen who were downsized are PT now essentially no matter HOW they were hired. And it's like they're all men and as the ONLY women in the department wh ycan't I be treated the same as them. thankx!