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Maryland ‘Superheroes’ to Urge Lawmakers to Pass Earned Sick Days Bill

January 31, 2017
Paid Sick Days

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Parents and Children to Don Superhero Capes, Ask State Legislators to Use Super Powers to Pass Healthy Working Families Act
This Thursday, moms, dads and kids from across Maryland will dress in superhero gear and visit the Maryland State House to urge lawmakers to support a bill for earned sick days:
 
Thursday, February 2nd
9:30am – 12:30pm
Room Miller West 2
Miller Senate Building
Annapolis, MD
 
Wearing superhero t-shirts and capes, the group will deliver books of stories that highlight the importance of earned sick days for working families and call on legislators to vote for the Maryland Healthy Working Families Act, which would allow full time employees to earn up to seven paid sick days a year. Currently, more than 700,000 Maryland workers cannot earn even a single paid sick day.
 
The delivery is being organized by MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground grassroots organization with more than a million members nationwide who support policies that ensure family economic security, and part of the Working Matters coalition.
 
The Maryland Senate will hold a hearing on the Healthy Working Families Act on Thursday, February 9th, where MomsRising member Ericka Farrell will testify about her experience lacking paid sick days.
 
MEDIA NOTE: MomsRising National Director of Workplace Equality Policies & Campaigns Ruth Martin will be available for interviews.
 
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Working Matters is a coalition of more than 150 organizations committed to advancing the Maryland Campaign for Paid Sick Days. Members include business owners, faith communities, and labor unions, as well as advocates for women, minorities, children, seniors, and low-wage workers.
 

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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.