Originally Posted by iceman49

I have no doubt that there was a small minority of individuals that abused the system, always have been, always will be. However to punish the entire group with an onerous sick leave policy is punative. When we asked Steenland about it, he used the sick leave abuse response...we said if you feel there there is abuse go after the abusers not the entire group...he said it was just a negotiating position. Its like anything else in the contract, its all up for negotiation.