On Monday, we launched our campaign to collect signatures to put paid family and medical leave and a $15 minimum wage on the November 2018 ballot. Here’s some of the press …
Raise Up Massachusetts Launches Campaign to Put Paid Leave, $15 Minimum Wage on the 2018 Ballot
BOSTON – Raise Up Massachusetts today announced the launch of a signature gathering campaign to put two questions on the November 2018 ballot: paid family medical leave and an increase in …
Taxes don’t make millionaires move
Commonwealth Magazine: MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATORS APPROVED the so-called Fair Share Amendment last week, setting the stage for it to appear on the 2018 statewide ballot, where voters will decide whether to …
Shirley Leung: Let’s not leave paid family leave up to a ballot initiative
Boston Globe: There is little common ground between supporters and opponents of paid family leave legislation, but this much they agree on: We can’t do this by ballot petition. That’s …
Lawmakers consider giving workers paid leave
Boston Globe: Three weeks after Bethany Fauteux gave birth to her son via C-section, she was back at work at a New Bedford preschool — chasing after toddlers and getting …
Family leave question colored by ballot threat, growing support
State House News Service: With the threat of a ballot fight hanging over the hearing room and with more than half of House and Senate members in support, workers, business …
‘Millionaire tax’ makes it to the 2018 ballot
State House News Service: For the second year in a row, Massachusetts lawmakers June 14 endorsed a proposal to extract an estimated $2 billion from the state’s roughly 20,000 highest …
Should Massachusetts have paid family and medical leave?
WWLP: Five states have paid family and medical leave, and Massachusetts is not one of them. Lawmakers are considering a bill to bring paid leave to Massachusetts. Lawmakers have tried, …
Editorial: Paid family leave helps workers and businesses alike
New Bedford Standard-Times: Family and medical leave benefits under state and federal programs provide job protection to many workers in Massachusetts, but the laws fall short for many when it …
Editorial: Mass. Constitution needs the Fair Share amendment
New Bedford Standard-Times: The Massachusetts House and Senate meet in a joint session today to consider an amendment to the state Constitution that would provide a new source of funding …