Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Paid Leave Coalition (MPLC) includes over 80 state and local community organizations, labor unions, businesses, doctors, researchers, policy, and data experts working together to educate the public and policy makers about the critical need for access to paid leave for all workers. Our members include diverse organizations throughout Massachusetts working to improve the lives of workers and their families. The goal of our campaign for seven paid sick days is to help low-wage workers stay employed, build assets, and enhance the well-being of their families.
Massachusetts Labor Secretary Joanne Goldstein declared paid sick days ‘a basic right’ at a legislative briefing on the bill in April 2011. We couldn’t agree more. The MPLC organized its members for a vibrant and successful hearing on An Act Establishing Paid Sick Days (H 1398, S. 930) on July 14, a measure backed by Governor Deval Patrick. The Coalition keeps the focus on passing strong legislation through grassroots organizing and action alerts to its over 500,000 individual and organizational network statewide.
Website
http://www.masspaidleave.org/index.html
Contact
Elizabeth Toulan
etoulan@gbls.org
617-603-1626
Partners
Steering Committee:
AFL-CIO – Massachusetts
Greater Boston Legal Services
JALSA - Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
New England United for Justice
Coalition Against Poverty/Coalition for Social Justice
Members:
Asian Task Force
AFSCME Council 93
Arise for Social Justice
BLET Local Div. 57
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
Boston Police Patrolmen's Association
Boston Women's Commission
Boston Teachers Union (AFT)
Boston Tenant Coalition
CHAPA
Charles Group Consulting
Chinese Progressive Association
City Life Vida Urbana
Community Action Agency of Somerville
Disability Law Center
Eastern Mass OWL: The Voice for Midlife and Older Women
EMERGE
Equal Exchange, Inc.
The Family Center
Greater Boston Labor Council
Greater Southeastern Mass. Central Labor Council
Hampshire Franklin Central Labor Council
Jewish Labor Committee
Jobs With Justice
Legal Assistance of Central Mass.
Mass. Affordable Housing Alliance
Mass. Commission on the Status of Women
Mass. COSH
Mass. Law Reform Institute
Mass. NOW
Mass. Nurses’ Association
Mass. School Nurse Organization
Mass. Senior Action
Mass. Women’s Bar Association
MassEquality
Merrimack Valley Central Labor Council
MomsRising
MotherWoman
National Assoc. of Social Workers, MA
Neighborhood Legal Services
North Shore Labor Council
One Massachusetts
Our Bodies, Ourselves
PACE
Painters District Council 35
Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council
Public Policy Institute
Plymouth Bristol Central Labor Council
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
SEIU Local 509
SEIU Local 615
SEIU Local 888
SEIU Mass. State Council
Somerville Commission on the Status of Women
South Coastal Counties Legal Services
South Middlesex Legal Services
Springfield Partners for Community Action
Take Back Your Time
Teamsters Local 122
UAW Mass. CAP Council
UAW Local 1596
UAW Local 2320
UAW Local 2322
UFCW Local 791
UFCW Local 1445
UNITE HERE, Joint Board
UU Mass Action Network
Western Mass. Legal Services