"swing shift" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a rotating shift in the workplace where employees take turns working during the day, evening and night. For example: "The factory workers take turns working the swing shift, so the production line is always staffed."
Her mother was a waitress and her father worked the swing shift at a Honeywell plant, assembling thermostats.
Alan's father, Douglas Kevin Kilnerr), works the swing shift at an aircraft factory and spends his free time in the darkroom pursuing his photography hobby.
Temporary jobs became all he could find: a swing shift working security; a Sunday missing church for a few hours of manual labor.
Robbie Zampieri, 30, a trader on the foreign exchange floor for Carr Futures, was low man on the totem pole, working the swing shift.
"Good luck to you!" Mr. Bruce, a tall man with a snowy, neatly trimmed beard and wire glasses, works the 3 to 11 p.m. swing shift five nights a week.
In the Season 2 episode "The Swing Shift," while posing as a German worker for an undercover operation, he is conscripted into the German army and almost ends up as a guard in his own P.O.W. camp.
Her husband worked swing shifts at the aluminum plant off the highway.
Fraser, who was partially handicapped by multiple sclerosis, worked swing shifts as a city pump operator, while Marian tended to the children.
"She was the happiest child we had," said her father, Nick Zello, who worked swing shifts for Corning Glass Works and, now retired, regularly does yoga in a SilverSneakers program.
Putting aside the question of sleep, stamina and the basic requirements of an orderly life, the swing shifts raised havoc with Caroline's arrangements for Amber.
My parents were poor when they learned they were pregnant with us; they had a 3-year old son already, and my father was working swing shifts at a weather station in Alaska.
