Important Legislation. Let’s get it passed.

A bill that mandates paid sick leave SB 217, An Act Mandating Employers Provide Paid Sick Leave To Employees is now in the Senate and deserves our support. Many of us, the working poor, do not have paid sick days along with 75% of our sisters and brothers. Add that to all of us who do not have health insurance. Where I work in a receptionist, security position if my co-workers get sick its stay home with no pay or come in and be sick at work. Most of us being low paid to start with come in to work. More often than not then the whole crew gets sick and we have a mess on our hands. None of us should have to go to work sick risking our health and infecting others. This same scenario is played out daily all around Connecticut. It makes me angry to think what the CEO’s of CT. companies are making, what the managers, the presidents, the owners of companies are making and I am sure they all have sick days. I know my boss does. He gets 5 a year and if not used the days are added to the 5 for next year. His insurance doesn’t cap out for anything and he is only an account manager for a Security company. For some very good information on payed sick leave see: www.everybodybenefits.org or www.ct-workingfamilies.org. For the text of the Senate bill see here.

Get on those telephones, start the e-mail machine let them know to get this bill out of the Senate to the House. This is a short session and we don’t want this bill to die again this year.

Note: I am all for this bill as reform. But when we look at what the CEO’s, the managers, the presidents, etc. are making compared to us and the injustice of us the workers sitting at work so sick we can hardly keep our head up, with no insurance when we go to the doctors and have to pay upfront for services, its really time to talk revolution and get on that roadway. I am not lower than dirt and refuse to be treated by the ruling class as such. How about YOU?