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I also get two weeks sick leave, PAID and one week STRESS leave.. Did you know that ALL AMericans are entitled to sick and stress leave? Thank the unions for that. Just look on the wall of your break room to find out more.. Dont have it posted? Ask your employer because its the law. But most just dont know whats comming to them under labor laws because I guess they hate unions soo omuch that they refuse to look for themselves...

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Are you talking about the Family Medical Leave Act?  It is true that employees of companies with more than 50 workers are guaranteed up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for their own or a dependent family member's illness.

If this is not what you are referring to, then I cannot find a source for your claims about U.S. labor laws.  Here's my link at the Department of Labor:

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/benefits-leave/index.htm

  I'm not a Jew, I'm a pagan. 

I'm not finding anything in California's labor laws about stress leave OR sick leave.  Here's what I found about paid Family Medical Leave:

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Family Leaves: Employees Entitled to Paid Leave to Care for Sick Family Members and to Bond with a New Child (SB 1661, adding Unemployment Insurance Code sections 3300 - 3305 and amending Sections 984, 2116, 2601, 2613, 2708, and 3254)


California is the first state in the nation to establish family temporary disability insurance, or FTDI, to provide up to six weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, or domestic partner, or to bond with a new child. These additional benefits, which will be available for leave taken on or after July 1, 2004, will apply to all employers, regardless of the number of employees, and will be funded through an increase in the amount contributed by employees to the State Disability Insurance fund.

Employees entitled to leave under the FMLA and the CFRA must take such leave concurrently with the paid leave and employers must continue to hold the job open while the employee is on leave. However, employers not subject to the FMLA and CFRA (such as employers with fewer than 50 employees) will not be required under this new law to hold a job open for the individual taking the paid time off. Also, employers will be allowed to require employees to use up to two weeks of earned but unused vacation or paid time off prior to that employee's use of these additional benefits.

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time off to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, or domestic partner, or to bond with a new child.

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How exactly does this back up your claim that all American, oops, no, all Californian workers are legally entitled to sick leave AND stress leave? 

Falcon91Wolvrn03 said:

I love how people complain when they hear how well union workers are doing. And then they say union workers are the retardes ones...

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Catalysis said:

It is not that people object to the idea of workers having more money in their pockets, the problem is that some remedial jobs pay better than more difficult, highly skilled jobs.

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If that's the case, then skilled labor should spend more effort trying to increase their own salaries, and less trying to decrease that of unskilled labor.

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It is not that people object to the idea of workers having more money in their pockets, the problem is that some remedial jobs pay better than more difficult, highly skilled jobs. Those positions then draw a high demand and become more exclusive, often going to those more well connected.

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Catalysis said:

There are no unions for most professional jobs, where salary is usually based on skill and quality of work.

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Also, the union jobs are not economically seperate from non-union jobs. If we were to unionize all jobs (i.e. socialism), do you honestly think people who spraypaint lines on roads would still make $60k+? What would doctors make? Unions exploit capitalist job markets, therefore the whole American union system would fall apart if it was universally adopted.

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If doctors became unionized, how would that impact the salary of a spraypainter? I don't see the connection.

And what would doctors make? At least what they're making now, or they would get better benefits, such as more time off.

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Enter the union... a system for the unskilled and uneducated person to get around the effects supply and demand.

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