One Wisconsin Now | The Duke Abides: Over 5,000 emails, one message -- Milwaukee wants paid sick days!

Over 5,000 emails, one message -- Milwaukee wants paid sick days!

By Robert - May 11th, 2009 at 2:08 pm EDT

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Activists in the One Wisconsin Now community have sent over 5,300 email messages to the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) demanding the big business special interest group drop its lawsuit preventing paid sick days from becoming law in Milwaukee. OWN launched the action last week in advance of the court hearing today about paid sick days and the frivolous suit brought by MMAC.

70% of Milwaukee voters supported the paid sick days referendum last November, a clear mandate. And paid sick days are good for business. Workers without adequate paid sick days often come to work when they are sick out of fear over losing their job. In the process, they spread the sickness through the workplace, making their co-workers sick, extending their own illness, and lowering their productivity. In fact, a study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research showed local employers would save as much as $17 million annually in increased productivity when paid sick days become law.

If you’d like to compose your own message to the Board of Directors of MMAC you can do so by visiting:

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/speakout/paidsickdays

Stay tuned for an update on the court hearing later this week.

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I want too...

By ttg May 13th 2009 at 1:23 pm EDT (Updated May 13th 2009 at 1:23 pm EDT)

I want steak and eggs for breakfast. Protein is good for you. Does that mean that a person who I chose work for, who never chains me to the floor (so I can walk out whenever I want), and who clearly explained the terms of my employment should have to pay for it? I know you will say that I am unfeeling, but I give my life for others and I am even starting a charity in the near future, but these are my choices. When are we going to start fearing the government taking away choice. We want choice when it comes to things like abortion and gay marriage, but not when talking about a person and their own business. Sick days are a benefit, not a right.

Re: I want too...

By scot @ onewisconsinnow May 15th 2009 at 12:23 pm EDT (Updated May 15th 2009 at 12:23 pm EDT)

Voting is a right, isn't it?

70% said Paid Sick Days.

Sick day referenDUMB!!!!

By Jennifer May 28th 2009 at 12:52 am EDT (Updated May 28th 2009 at 12:52 am EDT)

To the comment below, yes voting is a right but what is being voted on should be closely scrutinized. This sick leave is actually a nice paid vacation package for everyone that already takes advantage of our system. I'm sure if we took a poll for minimum wage to be $10.00 who wouldn't vote for that. That just proves the nonsense saying of "the people voted for it, so it should stand". People don't understand that business owners need to calculate what they think their costs should be when operating a business. After all, it is the business owner that has taken on the risk of opening a business to create jobs for people. He should be able to decide what benefits are able to be offered and still be profitable. To all the people employed by someone who voted for this, you should just be thankful that someone else (not yourself) was a big enough risk taker to start up a business and create a job for you.(jobs aren't magically created for those of you who seem to think otherwise)