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June 12, 2012
Who Cares For – and About – Sick Kids?
by Ellen Bravo Note to all legislators and other decision-makers: If you care about children, you must pay attention to what is happening to their…
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June 4, 2012
Get a Glimpse Behind the Kitchen Door
Cage-free chicken grilled by a sneezing chef. Organic salad brought to you by a coughing server. Are we really eating healthier when we don't know what…
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June 1, 2012
Tell Walmart to Stop Firing Workers for Being Sick!
Today Walmart is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary at their shareholders meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Not everyone will be joining the party. Angela Williamson was recently…
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May 30, 2012
Protest rally at Falmouth Dunkin’ Donuts Friday at 9
Rally tomorrow at Dunkin' Donuts in Falmouth in support of earned sick time 39 locations on Cape Cod alone, Occupy Cape Cod, others join protest…
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May 23, 2012
3 Reasons Why Card-Carrying Capitalists Should Support Paid Family Leave
In business school, we were taught that a solid strategy recognizes the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) challenges facing your business and addresses them. Employee…
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May 23, 2012
Who Speaks for Small Business? Not NFIB
The National Federation of Independent Businesses loves to wrap itself in the flag of neighborhood Mom and Pop shops when it lobbies on Capitol Hill,…
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May 18, 2012
No Cough With My Coffee
About 20 protesters picketed outside the Beacon St. Dunkin’ Donuts Thursday afternoon, demanding earned sick time for the nearly 25,000 Massachusetts employees of the famous…
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May 11, 2012
N.J.’s paid family leave program strengthens families, businesses
What to get Mom for Mother’s Day? How about more time with her family? Isn’t that was she really wants? And how about family time…
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May 10, 2012
The Gifts Mothers Really Want
by Ellen Bravo My favorite Mother’s day gifts from my sons were their original stories, songs and poems. But what I needed when they were…
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May 9, 2012
Immigrant Rights Groups Pressure Erik Dilan on Paid Sick Days
Earlier this afternoon, groups working to get paid sick day legislation through the City Council turned their sights to Councilman Erik Dilan, whom they described…
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