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August 30, 2017
Time to Care about Unions
“As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead, Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread. Small art or love or beauty their…
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August 28, 2017
Remember the Iceberg
When I see armed men carrying Nazi flags, raising stiff-arm salutes and spewing anti-Semitic chants, I picture my relatives in the town of Borisov in…
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August 1, 2017
Time to Care for All of Us
On August 5, 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a law 9 years in the making, took effect. The FMLA brought huge change…
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August 1, 2017
The Wage Gap Persists for a Reason
It’s time again to recognize the day when the earnings of black women catch up with the previous year’s earnings of white, non-Hispanic, (a.k.a. white)…
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July 24, 2017
Wins Make a Difference
What a difference a win makes – especially 40 of them. Recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a significant rise in the number…
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July 12, 2017
Fact Checking Ivanka Trump’s Reply to Wall Street Journal on Paid Family Leave
Ivanka writes (Ellen Bravo's response highlighted): Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program isn’t an entitlement, it’s an investment in America’s working families. Yes! If only…
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July 1, 2017
Arizona’s New Paid Sick and Safe Days Law Recognizes All Families
As our communities are processing the election results, many are afraid of losing access to basic needs, being separated from loved ones, and experiencing further…
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July 1, 2017
Family Values @ Work Congratulates Washington’s Paid Leave Win
Today’s paid family and medical leave victory is a huge win for Washington’s working families. It also sends a signal to the rest of the…
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June 27, 2017
Picture it: Paid Leave, the Movie
A scrappy band of workers, business owners, health care professionals, community groups, union members and legislators come together to pass a law so that all…
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June 26, 2017
FV@W’s Congratulates New Jersey’s Paid leave Expansion
Family Values @ Work congratulates our network partner, the New Jersey Time to Care Coalition, on today’s victory to strengthen their landmark Family Leave Insurance…
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