Most "union" workplaces have 15-18 paid sick leave clauses in their contracts. And those days are used and abused to the max (and then some) usually Fridays and Mondays following pay days, those 26oz flu's everyone seems to get.
Where ever you see paid sick days, you see sick time abuse, and employers implementing various methods to try combat it, such as required doctors notes after 3 continuous days sick, or even each day where abuse is rampant. Some employers do not pay the first sick day after 6 incidences, or require a medical note for each day after so many incidents.
Whatever they try, it doesn't have a whole lot of success reducing sick time abuse, which costs American businesses billions of dollars a year in lost productivity.
Which is why I spent the last 7 years moving US automotive factories (and jobs) to Mexico.
I’d rather return to driving across town to my company’s manufacturing plants, but now with the same UAW assholes running the show.
Until then, I prefer the day-long travel to central Mexico.
As a manufacturing supervisor and manager who also likes to learn the laws surrounding labor, I was always eager to read any union contracts and the FMLA and ADA acts.
It was always fun backing some slacker up against the wall and turning those legal abortions back on them.
I've worked for 2 non-union companies. One that based pay, sick days and holidays on the Teamsters contract even though only about 10% of their employers were union members. The 2nd company observed none of the contract and had their own schedule of holidays. They didn't pay any sick days BUT at the end of the year gave an attendance bonus... small quarterly bonus and doubled if you had all four quarters without missing work. It works great. The only draw back is that you have people coming to work with cold symptoms when you would rather they stay home.
People feel like they have left something on the table if they don't use provided sick day... Alternatively, they feel the same way if they don't collect their bonus because they stayed home with that hangover.