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Earned Sick Days: Moms to Deliver Apples-O-Grams

May 11, 2011
Paid Sick Days

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Moms to Deliver Apples-O-Grams with Messages from Philadelphians and More Than 700 Personal Letters In Support of Earned Sick Days Legislation
Action United, MomsRising and the Philadelphia Campaign for Earned Sick days will join moms and children to deliver “Apple-o-grams” – apples with messages from local families –and more than 700 letters to the Philadelphia City Council Members urging them to support a bill that would allow workers to sick days at:
 
9:15 AM, May 12
4th Floor, Outside of Council Chambers
City Hall
Philadelphia
 
Speakers include:
  • Councilman Bill Greenlee
  • Marianne Bellesorte, Moms Rising
  • Linda Montgomery, Action United
  • Elizabeth Lassiter, RN from Strawberry Mansion
  • Philadelpia moms who support earned sick days legislation
Each Apple-o-gram will include apples and a booklet with personal messages from local families and stories about the need for earned sick days. MomsRising.org, an online and on-the-ground grassroots organization that supports family-friendly policies, helped generate these messages through e-outreaches to its Pennsylvania members.
 
The Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (Bill No. 08074) would allow workers the opportunity to earn one hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked, up to 56 hours in a calendar year. The bill unanimously passed out of a committee on March 1, 2011. If the bill is passed, Philadelphia will become the fourth city in the country to pass earned sick days legislation so that workers can care for themselves or a sick family member.
 
Action United is a membership organization of low and moderate income Pennsylvanians working to build power through organizing communities to win changes on the issues that are important to them.
 
The Philadelphia Campaign for Earned Sick Days is a project of the Philadelphia Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces.  The Coalition is made up of 80 organizations supporting the need for earned sick time in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. 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, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.