Press Releases
July 18, 2012
Women Rally for Paid Sick Days
A crowd of supporters, including members of working-class advocacy organization Make the Road NY, gathered at City Hall Wednesday to announce the formation of Women…
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July 18, 2012
NY1 Online: Sick Pay Advocates State Their Case
For Video, visit NY1.com NY1 VIDEO: Manhattan Councilwoman Gale Brewer and Ana Maria Archila, the executive director of the group Make the Road New York,…
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July 18, 2012
Women Rally For Paid Sick Days
Hundreds of community and business leaders rallied on the steps of City Hall Wednesday to demand paid sick days for women workers. They gathered to…
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July 18, 2012
Sick leave for more than 1.65 million New Yorkers being blocked by council Speaker Christine Quinn
A bill to give five days of paid sick leave a year to workers at businesses with five or more employees has enough support to…
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July 17, 2012
Steinem Presses Quinn to Back Sick-Leave Bill
The feminist author Gloria Steinem is leading a campaign to pressure Speaker Christine C. Quinn to allow a City Council vote on a bill that…
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July 11, 2012
Minority Leader Pelosi (D-Calif.) Honored by National Family Organizations
Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Judy Lichtman Tuesday morning, the coalition fighting for family-friendly policy advances such as paid sick days and…
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July 10, 2012
K Street Files: Activists Lobby for Paid Leave
More than 200 activists are visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill today to lobby for legislation that would grant workers a minimum number of sick days…
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July 9, 2012
What ‘having it all’ really means
Whether a woman can have a successful career and an engaged home life, the question debated yet again after Anne-Marie Slaughter posed in this month’s…
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July 5, 2012
Orange mandatory-sick-time initiative gains steam
In what may be the biggest political campaign in Central Florida right now, an army of paid and volunteer petition workers is swarming through Orange…
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July 3, 2012
Sick of It
On June 28, while all eyes were on the Supreme Court decision on President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act – most notably its effects on…
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