It's Thanksgiving morning and I'm at work. I'm a truck driver. I left this morning at 3AM to get home in time for family dinner time, but I've run into a closed road due to an accident and I've been sitting parked on the expressway for a little over three hours now. I'm not sure I'm going to see any of my family today, and that sucks.
But, because I'm a Teamster, this is how this works: My hourly rate (when I work hourly) is $30.50/hr. Holiday pay today is 8 hours. If I'm working the holiday (I am today) I get double pay. If I'm stuck in traffic, I get hourly pay for that as well. So I'm sitting in traffic playing on my phone making $91.50/ hour until things get moving again.
Wherever you work, Unionize. Your local union will help you with all the necessary steps to take. Your life will be better for it.
Somebody save me some stuffing.