Tag: Paid Sick Days
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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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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March 29, 2017
Leaning On Each Other: A Story and Call to Action
“How’s that jade plant doing?” Joe* asked me as we sat down at his kitchen table for our weekly visit. “You said you put it…
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March 15, 2017
Get Real about Paid Sick Days
Have you seen the contest floating around Facebook called “Sick Just Got Real”? You’re supposed to send in a selfie or YouTube video answering a…
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February 15, 2017
Paid Sick Days Helps Cities Thrive
I live in Milwaukee. Every so many years city leaders will launch a contest for a new logo, a new slogan. For a while we…
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January 30, 2017
Marching Toward Justice
by Ellen Bravo We spanned seven continents, seas of women numbering in the millions, impossible to ignore. We showed up in hundreds of U.S. cities,…
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January 17, 2017
Tough Choices: Keeping a Job vs Caring for Your Body
Felix Trinidad was a hardworking, devoted husband. He was a grocery store worker and union organizer who knew he should get his intense stomach pain…
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January 12, 2017
Family Values @ Work Opposes Puzder for Labor Secretary
Below is the letter Family Values @ Work sent to the Senate HELP Committee opposing the nomination of Andrew Puzder to be Secretary of the…
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September 29, 2016
Family Values @ Work Praises Final Rule Requiring Paid Sick Days for Employees of Federal Contractors
Family Values @ Work, a national network of coalitions in 24 states, hails the final step in the process of enacting President Obama’s executive order…
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September 5, 2016
What Are Paid Sick Days?
Every worker in America does have the right to stay home when they or a loved one is sick. But under federal law, at least,…
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