Now sick leave is a matter of keeping Americans safe from this pandemic, and from the next one or whatever it may be.
I was told 100 percent of school bus drivers do not have any sick leave pay. That number, obviously, is a pretty stagger...
Rosa, go get yourself well. Don't worry about your job as chief of staff, don't worry about the campaign. It's there. It...
It's a matter of fairness for workers, in my view, and it's a matter of safety for all others.
That is exactly the question--it is cumulative? That's the number available now?
Again, we're talking about--our priority populations here are pregnant women, children, and the elderly.
I wish he could have been here today to help make this case. He cared very deeply about this issue.
Establishing paid sick days is also about economic competitiveness, income security for families, and, as H1N1 has prove...
Now is the time to protect our communities and put family values to work by adopting policies that guarantee a basic wor...
The argument that we cannot afford to institute paid sick days right now does not hold water.
What I think has crystallized the issue for all of us is the H1N1 crisis.
We all urge you to quickly pass the Healthy Families Act, the bill now before Congress that offers the best solution to ...
I can recall very similar kinds of conversations when we were going through the Family and Medical Leave, that we were g...
Working people need paid time off to recover from H1N1, to care for sick family members, to prevent spread of the virus.
We need to walk in the shoes of the millions of Americans who work hard every day to support their families.
For all of these reasons and more, Senator Kennedy and I first introduced the Healthy Families Act, 5 years ago.
I believe that paid sick days are a basic question of right and wrong, as Senator Kennedy did.
I hope that we, in the Congress, can honor Senator Kennedy's legacy by finding the strength and the will to get this leg...
