DemFromCT has a new item on Daily Kos: Paid sick days: Interview with Jon Green. Excerpt:
As we watch the battle over health reform play out against the backdrop of an H1N1 pandemic, I am reminded of many of the political lessons learned over the years (”don’t get mad, organize”, “all politics is local”) including the exhortations of many posters here (”are you going to complain, or are you going to do something?”) to work for change, real change that you can measure and see and feel.
As it happens, my home state of Connecticut is also home to a campaign to improve ordinary people’s lives by highlighting a local legislative battle to mandate paid sick days for employers of larger companies. This is legislation that’s come close to passing before (it’s passed each chamber, but not in the same year), and this year, there’s a concerted push to get it done.
Who doesn’t have paid sick days? Among others, day care and nursing home workers, bus drivers, grocery workers and very likely your neighbors or someone you know. And from a societal and public health perspective, coming to work sick for these folks is a great way, for example, to spread flu and other illnesses, exactly what you don’t want.
