Posts Tagged working families party

By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Artists protest outside of Carl Andre’s retrospective.

WePay blames “The Rules” for withholding medical funds from sex worker.

Breakfast Buzz, the show whose hosts were fired for transphobia, interviews local trans activists.

Jessica Luther on race and anti-violence politics at the University of Oregon.

Which Working Families Party?

Confronting youth incarceration.

Artists protest outside of Carl Andre’s retrospective.

WePay blames “The Rules” for withholding medical funds from sex worker.

Breakfast Buzz, the show whose hosts were fired for transphobia, interviews local trans activists.

Jessica Luther ...

Activists gather at a rally held to mark the launch of a new Women for Paid Sick Days Initiative. Gloria Steinem along with Ai-jen Poo and others are calling for paid sick days in New York.
By Lori Adelman • 11 years ago

Need paid sick leave? Feminists got your back.

“I was forced to ask my boss for some time off so I could take care of my sibling. When I asked for a few days of leave, my boss told me flat-out:  if you go, don’t bother coming back.”

These are the words of Ai Elo, a restaurant worker from Brooklyn and member of the Restaurant Opportunity Center, who told her story about getting fired when she needed to take care of her younger brother at a rally held a few weeks ago to mark the launch of a new Women for Paid Sick Days Initiative. Sadly and unfairly, Ai’s story is not unique in New York City, where I live, and around the world. There are about a million workers ...

“I was forced to ask my boss for some time off so I could take care of my sibling. When I asked for a few days of leave, my boss told me flat-out:  if you go, don’t ...