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Posted July 28th, 2010 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Welcome to the MomsRising.org blog carnival on paid sick days! We’ve invited advocates, moms, and workers (and many contributers wear all three hats) to contribute their unique voices to this dynamic national conversation about the urgent need for for everyone to be able to earn paid sick days. This blog carnival pulls together dozens of stories, [...]
Posted July 30th, 2010 by Vicki Shabo
Last weekend and earlier this week, I was in Louisville, Kentucky talking about paid sick days and economic security with both labor leaders and state legislators who champion issues important to workers. Advocates who lead paid sick days campaigns routinely praise organized labor’s hard work on these issues—and it is obvious why. I had the [...]
Posted July 30th, 2010 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Mary Olivella
“All mothers want their children to live a better life than theirs; to give them the opportunity to fulfill their hopes and dreams. Throughout my childhood my mother worked countless double-shifts flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets at the local fast food joint. We never talked about the cockroach-ridden apartments or the yearning to see our [...]
Posted July 30th, 2010 by Sarah Francis
Dust off the backpacks and dig out the lunch sacks – back to school time is just weeks away. And, working parents across this country are spending these last few weeks arranging, searching, and confirming afterschool care. Unfortunately, many parents don’t succeed in finding afterschool care for their kids . More than 1 million children [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Tim Judson
As we look forward to 2011, paid sick days campaigns in the states are reaching critical mass: since President Obama was elected, a majority of states have taken up the issue, with twenty-three legislatures introducing bills, and city campaigns moving in three other states. Several more states will introduce paid sick days bills in 2011, and [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Paid sick leave is sometimes described as a conflict between employers and employees, and it’s often framed as worker greed versus small business owner just trying to get by. But this issue is bigger than workers and employers. It’s also about families, colleagues and customers. Families need to be taken care of. If a primary [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Workers have always needed to care for their children, families and elderly relatives, and at the same time, be productive, responsible employees. For women, this breadth of responsibilities is felt with greater pressure, as women are more often the primary caregivers at home in addition to their paid outside employment. But today, when workplaces don’t provide the basic labor [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Mary Olivella
Last week The New York Times profiled the story of Elizabeth Budde, a Washington State doctor who’d been approved for a home loan but then had her home loan revoked after a loan officer learned she was on maternity leave with her newborn baby. [1] “The reason we were buying the house was because we were [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Joe Newman
A method for parents to balance empowering their children and still set firm boundaries so children become psychologically strong, healthy and respectful of others.
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Ruth Martin
Last month we asked MomsRising members like you to share your experiences with paid sick days – how having access to earned paid sick days has helped, or how NOT having them has hurt. The response was overwhelming! Moving story after moving story flowed into our offices. And now we’re moving those personal stories around in places where they can make a difference. MomsRising [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Melissa Schober
This year the White House, in cooperation with the Council on Women and Girls, hosted a conference on Workplace Flexibility. The conference came on the heels of a report by the Council of Economic Advisors on the benefits to employers of offering paid leave and flextime, official guidance on caregiving discrimination by the EEOC, and [...]
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