The Service Employees International Union’s president said that business and corporate leaders are “shirking their responsibilities” for not extending sick leave to workers, the Financial Times reported.
And by lobbying against liability if they fall ill, those same businesses are suggesting to workers that they are “worth sacrificing,” said Mary Kay Henry, whose union represents about two million nurses, cleaners, fast-food employees and airport workers.
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