Mayor Bloomberg: Give Paid Sick Leave to New Yorkers!

The Issue

Around the country, 1 in 6 workers have been fired or threatened with being dismissed just for taking time off due to personal or family illness. And when they are forced to go to work despite being sick, it can put everyone else at risk.

That’s why the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) is calling on Mayor Bloomberg to stand up for paid sick leave for all New York City workers. More than 44 million workers—including at least 1.4 million in New York City—do not have paid sick days.

Nearly 2 out of 3 low-wage workers (64%) do not have paid sick leave. For low-income working mothers it’s more dire: 70% don’t have paid time off to care for a sick child or their own illness. Lack of paid sick days is a health hazard for all New Yorkers: more than half of food service workers and 43% of workers in close contact with kids or the elderly are without it.

Join the Community Service Society of New York today, and tell Mayor Bloomberg that especially now when New Yorkers are struggling to hold onto their jobs they need basic, common sense benefits. No one should have to choose between their health and their paycheck!

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Community Service Society of New YorkPetition StarterPatton has spent years making an impact as an organizer, campaign manager and consultant. Online and off, his clients have consistently won tough campaigns, raising millions of dollars, driving millions of actions, moving millions of voters, and picking up a couple of Pollie Awards along the way. As a campaigner, he's run legislative races in the middle of nowhere and coordinated government relations efforts for large national advocacy groups. As a consultant, Patton developed media and strategy for Democratic candidates and unions as Senior Strategist at Compass Media Group in Chicago, provided fundraising and advocacy strategy for major nonprofits as Senior Account Executive at Donordigital in Berkeley, and did a fair bit of solo work in those fields. As Senior Campaign Strategist at <a href="http://Change.org" rel="nofollow">Change.org</a>, he can't wait to tie it all together. Patton is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He lives in Oakland with his wife and a pretty awesome puppy.
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The Issue

Around the country, 1 in 6 workers have been fired or threatened with being dismissed just for taking time off due to personal or family illness. And when they are forced to go to work despite being sick, it can put everyone else at risk.

That’s why the Community Service Society of New York (CSS) is calling on Mayor Bloomberg to stand up for paid sick leave for all New York City workers. More than 44 million workers—including at least 1.4 million in New York City—do not have paid sick days.

Nearly 2 out of 3 low-wage workers (64%) do not have paid sick leave. For low-income working mothers it’s more dire: 70% don’t have paid time off to care for a sick child or their own illness. Lack of paid sick days is a health hazard for all New Yorkers: more than half of food service workers and 43% of workers in close contact with kids or the elderly are without it.

Join the Community Service Society of New York today, and tell Mayor Bloomberg that especially now when New Yorkers are struggling to hold onto their jobs they need basic, common sense benefits. No one should have to choose between their health and their paycheck!

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Community Service Society of New YorkPetition StarterPatton has spent years making an impact as an organizer, campaign manager and consultant. Online and off, his clients have consistently won tough campaigns, raising millions of dollars, driving millions of actions, moving millions of voters, and picking up a couple of Pollie Awards along the way. As a campaigner, he's run legislative races in the middle of nowhere and coordinated government relations efforts for large national advocacy groups. As a consultant, Patton developed media and strategy for Democratic candidates and unions as Senior Strategist at Compass Media Group in Chicago, provided fundraising and advocacy strategy for major nonprofits as Senior Account Executive at Donordigital in Berkeley, and did a fair bit of solo work in those fields. As Senior Campaign Strategist at <a href="http://Change.org" rel="nofollow">Change.org</a>, he can't wait to tie it all together. Patton is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He lives in Oakland with his wife and a pretty awesome puppy.
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Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
Mayor, New York City

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Petition created on November 22, 2011