\u00a0The Missouri Senate passed HB 567 – a direct attack on working people and the paid sick time that voters approved with Proposition A this past November.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.6 million Missourians voters passed Proposition A to \u00a0raise the minimum wage and guarantee earned paid sick leave for Missourians. Already this year,\u00a0nearly 440,000<\/strong>\u00a0Missouri workers saw their wages increase, and on May 1st,\u00a01 in 3 working parents<\/strong>\u00a0became newly eligible for paid sick time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Despite the overwhelming support for Prop A in November, and the hundreds of thousands of workers who benefit from earned paid sick time, some politicians in Jefferson City – led by corporate lobby groups putting profits over people launched multiple attacks against Proposition A and our paid sick win.\u00a0This was a direct assault on working people and our democracy. <\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, Republican State Senators repealed the Paid Sick Leave that Missourians voted for last November.\u00a0 The UAW endorsed Proposition A which raised the minimum wage and created a statewide Paid Sick Leave program received 58% of the vote, including wins in numerous Republican districts. The Missouri practice of passing good legislation through referendum and […]<\/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":[289,1138],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor-laws","tag-proposition-a","tag-uaw-endorsed-paid-sick-leave"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389","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=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PXL_20241229_203926758-300x226.jpg\")
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