From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: By Ellen Bravo Imagine the scene: Someone tries to convince you there’s a wolf in the area about to cause great harm. The person offers to protect you – and then asks for generous handouts to help that effort. Only problem: There’s no wolf. Such is the case with theContinue reading “Time to own up: Paid sick days make sense”
Author Archives: Alex Stone
Sick Days for All Workers
Via The Retiree Advocate: New coalition aims for a healthier Seattle through paid sick days for all workers By Alex Stone It should be as fundamental a standard as the minimum wage and the 40-hour work week. Yet one million Washington workers can’t take a single paid day off from work when they – orContinue reading “Sick Days for All Workers”
Why you should care about paid sick leave
From The Washington Post: If you’re about to eat in a restaurant, you should read this first. Or then again, maybe you’d rather not. A report being released at a Congressional hearing later this morning by the D.C.-based Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (“a national restaurant workers’ organization, comprised of restaurant worker organizations across the country,”Continue reading “Why you should care about paid sick leave”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 