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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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The whole point of a strike that the employer knows you are striking and that you want x it change. What change is being achieved with your employer if they think you are sick?
This is a different situation because we're not making demands of our respective employers but of the federal government. I'm not sure what the right answer is.
If not even your direct employer is aware of a strike that presumably affects them, how the hell would a government five, ten layers removed be able to tell?
Not going to tell you not to take your sick day. I take sick days too...
You can have a phenomenon that looks like noise at small sample sizes, but becomes obvious when the size increases.
For one small business, a 5% change in productivity for one day might be business as usual, while for a nation it would be alarming.
Additionally, now that these people aren't working, they can go and protest, the other part of a typical strike. That's what actually gets eyeballs on the issue. It was national news that Minnesota just did one.
Honestly, this question is on my mind as well.