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Transcript of Paid Sick Days: Why We’re Winning Ellen Bravo EARN Conference September 13, 2011.
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Paid Sick Days:Why We’re Winning
Ellen BravoEARN Conference
September 13, 2011
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Growing Momentum• One win: a fluke/a local story/the start!• Two wins: a problem/call me when there’s a third/on our way!• Three: a conspiracy/a trend/a successful movement!
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What We’ve Won
2006, San Francisco 2007, DC 2008, Milwaukee 2011: Connecticut,
Philadelphia, Seattle, soon Denver
2012: Massachusetts, New York City and more!Campaigns in more than a dozen other cities and states.
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How We’re Winning
We Are Engaging Workers
Involving affected workers in every aspect of our campaigns.
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How We’re Winning
We Are Building Partners
GA: Easter Seals, PTA, GA Developmental Disabilities Council
IL: Access Living, Breast Cancer Network, AIDS Foundation, Protestants for Common Good, Academy of Pediatricians, YWCA
NY: Make the Road, Domestic Workers United, ROC, Working Families Party
MA: SEIU, school nurses, low-income housing developers, NE United 4 Justice
National: Mothers’ Day trip to Phoenix
Deepening work with labor, small business, immigrants, women’s groups
Examples include:
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How We’re Winnng
We Are Breaking Identity Theft
Jim Houser, OregonOwner, Hawthorne Auto Clinic
“As a result of our wage and benefit package, including paid sick days, 8 of our 9 full-time employees have an average tenure of over 18 years at Hawthorne Auto Clinic.”
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How We’re Winning
Finding Legislative Champions
Being savvy in targeting.Making support visible.Neutralizing where
necessary.Showing voters paying
attention.
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How We’re Winning
We Are Building Power• Raising resources (and
targeting).• Connecting groups with each
other (sharing strategies, tips, lessons, networks)
• Connecting grassroots with national partners (maximizing research, engagement)
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How We’re Winning
We Are Taking Action!
• Creative.• Targeted.• Newsworthy.• Involving workers
and other coalition partners.
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How We’re Winning
Using Clear Messages Rooted in Values• No one should have to choose between the job they need
and the family they love.• Everyone gets sick – not everyone has the right to get well.• You don’t want to be served flu with your food.• Bad times are the worst time to lose a job because of caring
for a sick child.• Policies that value families are good for the bottom line.
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How We’re Winning
Using New Media Tools
• Working Families Story Bank – audio and photos. http://www.workingfamiliesstories.org/
• Using multiple languages.• Social networking.
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Contagion: Not Just a Movie
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How We’re Winning
Demonstrating Real Needs
• Our organizing, research, polling demonstrate a need for new minimum standards.
• Workers have identified paid sick days as a modest solution with a major impact.
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How We’re Winning
Demonstrating Good for Business• Cost of replacement: 150% for
salaried, $5500 even for $8/hr workers
• Reports on San Francisco.
• Not a favor to women: cuts turnover, presenteeism, health costs; improves quality and productivity.
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• Using poll numbers on paid sick days:
How We’re Winning
Demonstrating Public Support
City Rep.s Independents Dems
Denver 58% 65% 73%
New York City 75% 88% 93%
Philadelphia 64% 72%
Connecticut 61% 70% 87%
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• We’re building more than immediate reforms.• Building movements, connections, power, capacity.
• We’re building a world of justice and honor, for working families, and for us all.
Building The World We Deserve:In for the long haul