re: #253 dragonath

I was appalled that a local iron foundry only gives their workers two one and a half weeks of vacation after 10 years.

And that place was unionized!

Given the competition such foundries often face, their unions don’t fight for vacation time, because they know that the foundry can ill afford to have a lot of people absent. They’ll fight for health benefits and retirement, fight like Hell. But many such unions know that they and their bosses are in the same boat in terms of productivity: They need to run as fast as they can to stay in one place.