For all these leaves there has to be a guarantee that the workers' jobs are protected when they go back, because just to have a leave.... We've received calls from workers who left and then they came back and were told, “This is your job now” and they were saying, “That's not the job I had before”. We're talking about non-unionized workers, so it's too bad, right?
There has to be a protection especially for non-unionized workers that, when they leave, they come back and their job has been protected with any wage increases that they would have missed. Women largely leave to do these jobs. Sometimes they have to take leaves of absence. I know my mother had to take care of my grandmother, and when she went back to her job she just picked up where she left off and there was nothing for her in the wage increase that everybody else got. She was told, “Okay, go do what you have to do; maybe a job will be here when you get back”. There has to be a guarantee for these leaves.