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They're probably mostly rich or retired, so they can take as much vacation as they want anyway.

I think there’s a lot of good old moralization going on out there. «Young people are getting lazy» etc. Especially from old rich people who got everything handed to them.

There's got to be a big chunk of that percentage that want MORE vacation time that Europe.

At least based on my sample size of 1.

They're probably employers.

I work at a semiconductor fab in Portland Oregon, we get 5 weeks paid vacation. There''s a fairly large group of my coworkers who never use their vacation or sicktime out of principal.

Americans and voting against their best interests. Name a better duo.

I don’t know if this holds true outside of my awareness, but I am only hearing folks refer to it as PTO (paid time off) these days. The place I work goes as far as to blend all types of days into one bucket, to be used for sick time or whatever the person needs.

US has PTO, it is just much less than Europe.

The reason there are people who don’t support it is because of conservative shame culture. If you aren’t rich, it is because you are lazy. They don’t want to take anything away from the rich because they earned it and deserve it. If that means the worker suffers, then the worker should just work harder so they can be rich too.

The US had a strong labor movement before the 2nd world war and into the 1950s when union membership was at its highest and the middle class was thriving and wealth inequality was a fraction of what it is today. What killed it was the Cold war and the spectre of communism which was used by conservatives (there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans back then) as a bludgeon to effectively kill the labor movement over the following decades until Reagan finally put a stake through its heart in the 80s.

That's the short version anyway. There's obviously a lot more to it.

In any case, the good news is that a lot of people seem to be waking up and demanding change. Union membership is on the rise as are other encouraging signs. I'm way too jaded to be optimistic about it, but I'm not as pessimistic as I once was. My own union has won two strikes in the last 5 years, for example.

On the flipside, the left has managed to pretty thoroughly alienate a huge chunk of blue collar workers who should be their natural constituency, so that's not great either.

The way the law works here is you get five weeks vacation every year and have a right (but not an obligation) to take four of those consecutive between June and August. You must however take four weeks of vacation every year, the rest you can save for up to five years (before you have to take them as well).

Oh, and to really blow your mind, if you get sick during vacation, those count as sick days and you get the vacation back.

Although personally I’d rather work through August just to avoid millions of families with kids everywhere. Holidays are so expensive at that time of year.

Here in Denmark

in most places at least, you can choose the times you want vacation. Some places to "force" their employees to take 3 weeks during june - august... but then you still got 3 other weeks you can sprinkle around the year. (a lot of other places dont care)

and yes, i know a lot of people who spend their main vacations in may, or september. My mother mostly travels in the off-months (hotels, plane tickets etc, are also cheaper)

But... the idiot billionaires back the racist, sexist, and xenophobic policies that match with my deeply ignorant ideology!

The same people who have Medicare and don’t believe in socialized medicine.

Baby boomers and the silent generation need to get dementia and gtfo

I bet a good number of those people are the ones who get lots of vacation time already and are just pulling others down because they want to be treated better than average. It's like how there's people who oppose raising min wage because "they don't want burger flippers to make the same pay as they do". Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's a lot of Americans who sadly think that way. We see it with the student loan forgiveness efforts, too. They can't be happy with others getting nice things unless they themselves are still somehow getting better things. To not mince words, they lack empathy and are selfish.

Hi, me! I'm going to move to Europe within the next 6 years and never look back. Fuck this country, it's not going to get any better any time soon. The daily lifestyle is just horrible.

UK.

28 days PTO plus bank holidays.

28 days full-pay self-certificate sick leave.

6 months full pay with Dr's cert, beyond that 50% pay for 24 months.

20-30 paid days depending on country and factors like your seniority.

30+1 (my company gives everyone an extra day in December for a "shopping day").

Plus, of course, paid sick leave, with no ridiculous limitations.

UK, working for a German company.

Netherlands hete

. Sick leave, unlimited (first 2 days are at your expense, the rest is payed in some degree).

. Pto (zorgverlof, care time) so you can take care of your kid, yourself, mom, whatever, unlimited but it's either unpayed or you use vacation days for that. Can not be refused by boss.

.Vacation days, minimum of 22 (some jobs get 37 by law) to be spent on pto, vacation, a day to the zoo, whatever.

.Overtime (if your boss agrees) is turned into either more vacation days or payed at 100% or more. Very subject to the type of job.

There is A LOT of information on this, and this barely scratches the surface, but this is what you can expect here

PTO is such a weird thing from the outside. Why don't you just strike and set everything on fire? No need to vote to get human rights...