WA voters, your ballots are coming: check out this podcast on Initiative 1433, a.k.a. Raise Up Washington!

Posted bywaworkfamPosted inPaid Sick Days

The economic and social benefits of paid sick leave are widespread — but more than 1 million Washingtonians have no access to earning paid sick leave. In this podcast, the team at Civic Skunk Works sits down with Rep. Jessyn Farrell and Bill Marler, a national food safety lawyer and advocate who works with people impacted by dangerous outbreaks (think Chipotle) to discuss why passing Initiative 1433 is critical for Washington families, makes our communities safer from outbreaks and helps our economy.

Listen here »

Published by waworkfam

The Washington Work and Family Coalition includes representatives of seniors, women, labor, health professionals, children’s advocates, faith communities, low income workers, employers, non-profits and other organizations. We’re working together to make it easier for parents to raise healthy children and care for aging parents; for workers to care for themselves or their partners in the event of a serious illness; and for businesses to offer modern workplace standards that improve productivity and worker health.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: