Given the Democratic Party’s long-standing image as the party more sympathetic to worker rights and labor unions, there’s no getting around the astoundingly bad optics of Nancy Pelosi’s swift embrace of corporate America’s appeal to Congress to prohibit a nationwide railroad strike
To an extent, I understand management's reluctance to agree to this. If you give union employees 15 paid sick days (I assume this is per year?), you can bet that they will take them all, whether they are ever sick or not. In effect, it would be the equivalent of giving them two extra weeks of paid vacation.
To an extent, I understand management's reluctance to agree to this. If you give union employees 15 paid sick days (I assume this is per year?), you can bet that they will take them all, whether they are ever sick or not. In effect, it would be the equivalent of giving them two extra weeks of paid vacation.
By "equities", Pelosi means "call options."
“I don’t like going against the ability of unions to strike, but weighing the equities, we must avoid a strike.