{"id":9655,"date":"2025-08-10T08:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:13:39","slug":"doing-this-brings-back-paid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/doing-this-brings-back-paid-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing This Brings Back Paid Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlpr.org\/government-politics-issues\/2025-08-08\/missouri-paid-sick-leave-amendment\">Paid Sick Leave Was Overturned in Missouri, a constitutional amendment could bring it back<\/a> from St. Louis Public Radio shares this&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cIt&#8217;s just so sad to see the will of the voters overturned like that for some big corporate pressure that just hurts all of us, small businesses and the actual people, working class people in Missouri,\u201d Pearson said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cBecause people had just voted for it. It was on top of everyone&#8217;s mind. You&#8217;re just going to walk in and say, \u2018No, you&#8217;re not going to do this.\u2019 It was disgusting,\u201d Smith said.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>When Gallick\u2019s bill went through a public hearing along with another one centered on paid sick leave, over 400 people submitted public testimony, most of it online. The majority of respondents were opposed to repealing paid leave.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Missouri-state-seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9656\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paid Sick Leave Was Overturned in Missouri, a constitutional amendment could bring it back from St. Louis Public Radio shares this&#8230;. \u201cIt&#8217;s just so sad to see the will of the voters overturned like that for some big corporate pressure that just hurts all of us, small businesses and the actual people, working class people [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655","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=9655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9655\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}