Whereas: One in five people working in the United States have no access to earned sick time, or “paid sick leave,” (PSL) for short-term illness, health needs, and preventive care.[1] They face an impossible choice: stay at home and risk their economic security or go to work and risk their own, their coworkers’, and the public’s health. Until 2023, Union Pacific Corporation (“UP”) did not offer PSL to most of its employees.[2] While we commend UP for negotiating PSL policies for unionized employees in 2023, we are concerned that UP’s practice of treating PSL as an absence subject to discipline …