MomsRising to Congress: Read Up on Why Families Need Paid Sick Days
MEDIA ALERT
July 27, 2010
CONTACT: Gretchen Wright or Molly Tomlinson, 202/371-1999
MomsRising to Congress: Read Up on
Why Families Need Paid Sick Days
Why Families Need Paid Sick Days
from Parents in Every State
MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, will deliver a “summer reading assignment” to members of Congress to educate them about the need for paid sick days. Moms and kids will deliver a collection of stories from parents in every state across the country who need paid sick days, along with hand sanitizer, after meeting at:
Rayburn House Office Building
Independence Avenue Entrance
Washington, D.C.
The book, Even Super Moms Can’t Fight All Germs! We Need Paid Sick Days shares the moving personal stories of parents who need paid sick days to care for children and other loved ones. They come from front lines of motherhood from every state in the nation, and speak of the impossible choices, struggles, and the sometimes improbable triumphs of mothers and fathers to care for their children and other loved ones.
More than 50 million employees – almost 40 percent of workers in the United States – are not allowed by their employers to earn paid sick days. MomsRising, a nationwide organization that supports family-friendly policies, generated the stories in the book through a series of nationwide e-outreaches to its members.
MEDIA NOTE: MomsRising Campaign Director Donna Norton will be on-site and available for comment.
MomsRising.org is an online and on-the-ground grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to achieve economic security for all families in the United States. MomsRising is working for paid family leave, flexible work options, affordable child care, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes so many mothers. MomsRising also advocates for health care for all, toxic-free environments, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families. In 2010, Forbes.com named MomsRising's web site as one of the “Top 100 Websites For Women.”
