Paid Sick Leave, Death, And Taxes

Christine Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg blockading vote on NYC’s paid sick days bill

From Death And Taxes :

New York City’s paid sick days bill would provide those individuals and families who risk their health to attend work, lest they be fired, to have the health and financial security they need. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, however, are blockading the measure. Apparently Bloomberg is more interested in battling 32-ounce Big Gulps than insuring the health and financial wellbeing of his city’s poor and disadvantaged. ...

MoveOn.org Challenges Christine Quinn Over Paid Sick Leave

Below is an excerpt of an e-mail I received yesterday from MoveOn.org :

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Below is an email from Cari Jackson, a MoveOn member in New York who created a petition at SignOn.org that is getting a lot of attention and may be of interest to people in your area.

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Dear New York City MoveOn member,

An estimated 1.3 million workers in New York City lack a single day of paid sick leave. When they or their children get sick, they have two choices: Risk losing their job, or go to work sick and spread whatever they have to everyone else.

The Paid Sick Time Act, which would guarantee all New Yorkers 5 to 9 paid sick days and would allow all workers to use their days when a child is ill, has the support of 80% of New Yorkers and a majority of the city council.

But New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has single-handedly blocked this bill from even coming up for a vote. That's why I created a petition to Speaker Quinn on SignOn.org, which says:

Stop blocking the Paid Sick Time Act. New Yorkers need time off when they or or their children are sick.

Will you sign the Paid Sick Leave petition? Click here to add your name, and then pass it along to your friends:

Thanks!

–Cari Jackson

The text above was written by Cari Jackson, not by MoveOn staff, and MoveOn is not responsible for the content.