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Ask your legislators to co-sponsor paid sick days

The momentum is already growing behind the paid sick days bill. This is the year for us to pass this much-needed common sense public health reform, because in times of economic crisis, the need for paid sick days is even more accute.

But we can't do it without you. Help remind your legislators how important paid sick days are to the public health and to working families.

Ask them to sign on as cosponsors.

July 29, 2010

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Dear Legislators,

I'm writing to ask you to support the paid sick days bill. Allowing workers to earn paid sick days is a common-sense reform, and in times of economic crisis, it's all the more vital.

Will you sign on as a co-sponsor of the paid sick days bill, HB 6187?

No one should have to go to work sick. But 650,000 workers in Connecticut don't have a single sick day all year. That includes people who cook and prepare our food, look after of our children, and care for the sick and elderly -- and when they have to come to work sick, it isn't health for any of us.

The economic downturn hits people without paid sick days harder. For far too many families, missing a day's pay -- or even losing a job -- is as easy as catching a cold.

Passing paid sick days as a basic labor standard is an important way to protect the public health and to provide a much-needed measure of economic security for working and middle class families.

Thank you. Please let me know if you will co-sponsor the paid sick days bill.

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