Legislative Call to Action: Paid Sick Days 2014

Today at the State House, VSEA President Shelley Martin joined the Workers’ Center, other unions and business leaders (like Ben and Jerry, pictured here bottom) to urge the legislature to pass a bill granting paid sick days to all working Vermonters. Martin talked about VSEA’s effort to procure paid sick days for temps throughout Vermont, and called on legislators to provide paid sick days to all working Vermonters.

If you’re a Vermonter, please contact your legislators today and ask for their support for legislation to provide all working Vermonters with paid sick leave. It’s time!

Don’t know who your legislators are? Click here to find out.

Today at the State House, VSEA President Shelley Martin joined the Workers’ Center, other unions and business leaders (like Ben and Jerry, pictured above in the bottom picture) to urge the legislature to pass a bill granting paid sick days to all working Vermonters. Martin talked about VSEA’s effort to procure paid sick days for temps throughout Vermont, and called on legislators to provide paid sick days to all working Vermonters.

She also talked about her own experience with paid sick leave after being diagnosed with cancer. "I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have sick leave," she said. "This is important to a lot of working Vermonters, especially working women, like single mothers with children." Jerry Greenfield talked about the need for the Governor and legislature to "even the playing field" for all businesses operating in Vermont, reminding how many grocery businesses groused about B&J’s bottle bill legislation a few years back, but "A lot of them are still where they were. The bill didn’t cause them to shut down, like they said they would have to if it passed."

If you’re a Vermonter, please contact your legislators today and ask for their support for legislation to provide all working Vermonters with paid sick leave. It’s time!

Don’t know who your legislators are? Click here to find out.