Leave it to the marketplace and workers would get very little, if any, vacation time. In the USA there are no federal laws requiring paid vacation time, a position the USA alone occupies among industrialized nations. Union representation, however, makes a difference.

But the paid vacation act, pending in Congress, hopes to address the larger problem of mostly non-unionized workplaces. It's hardly adequate. It requires firms with 100 employees or more to provide only a week of paid vacation. But it is a start and it deserves our support.

next we'll have town-hall dumb asses screaming against Unions.