Benefits in general, but especially days off, hospitalization, seniority, vacations. By the time he retired, he had five weeks of paid vacation a year. “That was one of my biggest losses.” “I didn't need it, I just missed it.” He also appreciated eye care and dental care benefits. He brought work pressures home with him and especially looked forward to vacations to help relieve accumulated tensions. Only married meat cutters with children could take vacations during summers in Lake Geneva stores, because that resort town did most of its business in the summer season.
