17 million workers will be too sick to work today

February 4, 2019

More than 100 million people were expected to watch yesterday’s Super Bowl. Today, more than 17 million are expected to call their employers and tell them they are too sick to report for work.

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.