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Originally Posted by opendoor
Would you be OK if your employer's solution to the shortage was to make it so you could essentially never take a day off in the event of a medical appointment or a family emergency without repercussions (while simultaneously raking in record profits)?
Companies have increasingly gone leaner and leaner, having fewer people around to do the same amount of work in order to boost earnings. And as long as they can continue exploit their existing employees to do that, they'll keep doing it.
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These medical appts/sick days/family emergencies all seem like union red herrings when you dig into them.
The workers in this union tend to hover around or less than 100 hours per month of actually being on the job. Yeah, if you have a 6 figure job where you average 25 hours a week, it seems reasonably to be able to fit appts into your off hours. That's the same for most professional type jobs that have an expectation of cancelling dr appts if something comes up.
It seems there is some disagreement on whether they can utilize their PTO for unexpected sick days, but the agreement provides for 10 pto days to be used as single days for unexpected circumstances. There were accusations the companies were being shady about honoring that, but it didn't seem like it was widespread and there are mechanisms to deal with it when it happens.
PeteMoss's comments are spot on. Why is the hard left dying on their sword to support six-figure railway workers who work 25 hours/week with 5 weeks PTO and a cushy pension?