{"id":9075,"date":"2025-02-22T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9075"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T19:00:58","slug":"someone-is-trying-to-change-the-paid-leave-you-voted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/someone-is-trying-to-change-the-paid-leave-you-voted-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Is Trying To Change The Paid Leave You Voted For&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, Missourians voted for Proposition A which raised the minimum wage and created a Paid Leave Program.\u00a0 It seems some folks aren&#8217;t happy about it. The Missouri Independent has the story in <a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2025\/02\/20\/new-paid-sick-leave-requirement-targeted-by-missouri-republicans\/\">New Paid Sick Leave Requirement Targeted By Missouri Republicans<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The campaign to pass Proposition A drew no large-scale opposition prior to the vote. But a court challenge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2024\/12\/09\/business-groups-file-legal-challenge-to-voter-approved-minimum-wage-hike-sick-leave\/\">filed in early December<\/a>\u00a0by major business advocacy groups asks the Missouri Supreme Court to invalidate the vote. The court has set the case for arguments on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the same groups involved with the lawsuit \u2014 Associated Industries of Missouri, the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Missouri Grocers Association and others \u2014 are backing the bills to change Proposition A.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Berry, a lobbyist for Jobs with Justice, said the challenges should have come earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the petition is first certified for circulation, there\u2019s an opportunity to challenge that ballot summary. That didn\u2019t happen,\u201d Berry said Wednesday. \u201cWhen the petition signatures are turned in and the initiative is certified for the ballot, there\u2019s an opportunity to challenge the signatures. That didn\u2019t happen. None of these challenges started coming until after the voters approved this by 57%.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/new-year-new-missouri-illinois-laws\/pxl_20241229_203926758\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8897\" src=\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241229_203926758-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241229_203926758-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241229_203926758-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241229_203926758-1024x771.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proposition A was endorsed by the UAW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, Missourians voted for Proposition A which raised the minimum wage and created a Paid Leave Program.\u00a0 It seems some folks aren&#8217;t happy about it. The Missouri Independent has the story in New Paid Sick Leave Requirement Targeted By Missouri Republicans&#8230; The campaign to pass Proposition A drew no large-scale opposition prior to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[96,263,289,1100],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-minimum-wage","tag-paid-leave","tag-proposition-a","tag-uaw-endorsed"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}