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January 10, 2012
9to5 Milwaukee Files Ethics Complaint Against Supreme Court Justice
The group that led the fight for paid sick days in Milwaukee has filed an ethics charge against a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, after learning…
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January 6, 2012
NY Labor Leader Calls Paid Sick Days a Human Right
This article by George Gresham, President, 1199SEIU, appeared today in the New York Amsterdam News: Late last year, our billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, summoned the…
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January 4, 2012
Cape Cod Senator’s Real-World Case for Paid Sick Days
Dan Wolf is a small business owner, a legislative leader in Massachusetts, and a believer in paid sick days. In an op ed in the…
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January 4, 2012
Connecticut Workers Welcome Paid Sick Days
This time last year, Desiree Rosado, a school bus driver in Groton, Connecticut, was dreading flu season. "Working without paid sick days, you're always worried…
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December 15, 2011
Roadmap for Working Families in North Carolina
With high unemployment and a severe jobs shortfall increasingly threatening the economic security of North Carolina’s working families, it is imperative that state leaders develop…
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November 17, 2011
The Health Benefits of Paid Family Leave
By Lili Farhang, Human Impact Partners In February, my partner and I had a baby. The pregnancy and birth went smoothly and our son was…
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November 17, 2011
New Research Shows Need for More Outreach on Paid Family Leave
By Vibhuti Mehra, Labor Project for Working Families Lisa Mukai, a mother of two from Redwood City, has good reason to appreciate California’s Paid Family…
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November 15, 2011
Note to Super-Committee: A Quick Way to $1.1 Billion in Savings
As politicians scramble to cut programs like Medicare and Medicaid that serve the most vulnerable groups in our society, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research…
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November 14, 2011
Victory for Jimmy John’s Workers
St. Paul, Minnesota: Last winter, workers for a local Jimmy John's franchise discovered through a union survey of employees that on any given day, approximately…
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November 9, 2011
Time to Occupy K Street
It’s time to expand the Occupy Wall Street movement to include K Street, home of the corporate lobbyists. As the top one percent carry out…
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