Legislature votes to overturn Milwaukee’s wishes on sick leave

[iwishiwas]

Source: Superior telegram




Published April 13, 2011, 12:25 PM

Legislature votes to overturn Milwaukee’s wishes on sick leave
Republican state lawmakers have sent a bill to the governor's desk that would overturn a Milwaukee ordinance that requires all employers to grant workers paid sick leave.

By: Shawn Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio, Superior Telegram
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The sick leave ordinance was approved by Milwaukee voters in a 2008 referendum by a 69-31 percent margin. It's been tied up in court ever since, but was recently upheld by a court of appeals. The ordinance requires large employers to grant full-time employees up to nine paid sick days each year. It requires small businesses to grant five paid sick days.


"I would love for there to be more jobs in the city of Milwaukee,” says Stone . “But we will not get there by making it more difficult for businesses to do business in Milwaukee. We need to create an environment where the rules are the same community to community."
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“Who are we as a legislative body to question 69-percent of the voters of the City of Milwaukee?” asks Sinicki . “It's not the first time we've done this in this chamber. Maybe we should just do away with the referendum process. Or maybe we should just do away with local government because we don't believe in either one."

The plan would also ban similar ordinances from being passed elsewhere in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker said he's inclined to sign it into law.


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No sick leave?? Whow!! Walker's Repug poodles have no hearts.

[msongs]

1. Support ONLY businesses that offer sick leave. Boycott the others where possible nt

[ladywnch]

2. mark my words folks, we are heading back the 1800s.

we're going to be carrying guns strapped to our hips, sending our kids to work somewhere rather than to school, watching friends and family being sent off to debtors prisons, women prohibited from education or work (barefoot and pregnant)......the rethug/teabaggers are going to have us there by the end of the this decade. They are moving at a breakneck pace and the dems are watching the dust settle.

[madrchsod]

3. walker is really over reaching..

69% of the voters means there were republicans voting for that measure.

[bongbong]

4. The GOP plan

"We loved that wonderful era before 1865, when free labor allowed total failures to become rich 'successful' businessmen. We repigs need the crutch of free labor because without it we'd be flipping burgers."

[Tx4obama]

5. Looks like the GOP wants to lose all elections in the future. n/t

[Democracydiva]

7. Perhaps they

are emboldened because they have control of the voting/tabulating machines and the media in most of the country.

[Tx4obama]

6. GOP definition of 'businesses to do business' = make more profit by screwing workers. n/t

[iwishiwas]

8. YES.

[Maeve]

9. Give em sick days and next thing you know, they'll want off for their funerals!!

If they want to be sick, they should come in anyway--and cough on the boss!