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Maryland Moms Ask Legislators to Use Super Powers to Pass Healthy Working Families Act

February 25, 2016
Paid Sick Days

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Moms and Kids in SuperHero Capes and T-Shirts to Deliver Messages Supporting Earned Sick Days Legislation on Day of Healthy Working Families Act Hearing
Moms and their kids from around Maryland will visit the Maryland State House to deliver messages from Marylanders from across the state about the importance of earned sick days:
 
9:30am, Tuesday, March 1
Anne Arundel Delegation Room
Maryland State House Office Building
Annapolis, MD
 
The group will be wearing superhero t-shirts and capes, and deliver signatures on a petition calling 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. They will also deliver books of stories that highlight the importance of earned sick days for working families. Currently, more than 720,000 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.
 
That same day, the House Economic Matters Committee will hold a hearing on the bill at which MomsRising member Ericka Farrell will testify about her experiences with and without paid leave when she needed time off to care for her children.
 
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on the bill later in the week.
 
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MEDIA NOTE: Ericka Farrell and MomsRising Senior Campaign Director Ruth Martin will be available for interviews.
 
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.