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May 18, 2012
No Cough With My Coffee
About 20 protesters picketed outside the Beacon St. Dunkinโ Donuts Thursday afternoon, demanding earned sick time for the nearly 25,000 Massachusetts employees of the famousโฆ
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May 11, 2012
N.J.โs paid family leave program strengthens families, businesses
What to get Mom for Motherโs Day? How about more time with her family? Isnโt that was she really wants? And how about family timeโฆ
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May 10, 2012
The Gifts Mothers Really Want
by Ellen Bravo My favorite Motherโs day gifts from my sons were their original stories, songs and poems. But what I needed when they wereโฆ
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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 describedโฆ
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May 9, 2012
NY: Hispanos piden cobrar en sus trabajos si se ponen enfermos
NUEVA YORK -- Trabajadores hispanos se unieron el miรฉrcoles para apoyar una legislaciรณn que obligarรญa a pequeรฑos negocios y empresas de la ciudad de Nuevaโฆ
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April 27, 2012
Guest View: Earned sick time is a pro-woman policy
April 27, 2012 I've met many women who left corporate America to start their own businesses, usually because of the lack of family-friendly work environmentsโฆ
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April 25, 2012
Dunkinโ Donuts protest calls for sick days
April 25, 2012 NEW BEDFORD โ A dozen protesters clad in bright orange T-shirts marched and chanted in front of Dunkin' Donuts on Kempton Streetโฆ
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April 24, 2012
Enfermarse puede ayudar la economรญa
Martes 24 Abril 2012 El dรญa de enfermedad pago para los neoyorquinos, es un proyecto de ley municipal que ha sido apoyado por muchas organizaciones,โฆ
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April 20, 2012
Working Momsโ Challenges: Paid Leave, Child Care
April 20, 2012 The past week's political firestorm in the presidential race focused on stay-at-home moms, but two-thirds of women with young children now work.โฆ
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April 14, 2012
Ellen Bravo on the Melissa Harris Perry Show
Valuing Women's Work Ellen Bravo discusses how women's work is valued in the United States and the public policies that promote family values. โUnlike Rush,โฆ
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