{"id":169,"date":"2013-12-05T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertyunionparty.org\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-12-05T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T15:55:12","slug":"low-wage-workers-rising-fighting-for-a-livable-wage-and-paid-sick-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Low-wage Workers Rising!: Fighting for a Livable Wage and Paid Sick Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low-wage Workers Rising!: Fighting for a Livable Wage and Paid Sick<br \/>\nDays<br \/>\n\u2022 12-1pm, McDonald\u2019s, 1205 Williston Rd, South Burlington<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/256162754532069\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/256162754532069\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/256162754532069<br \/>\n<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 12-1pm, McDonald\u2019s, 1332 US Route 302 Barre\/Montpelier Rd, Berlin<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, communities are standing up against low wage jobs<br \/>\nand policies that fail to protect working families. In the coming weeks,<br \/>\nVermonters will join workers in hundreds of other cities to demand<br \/>\nbetter wages, benefits, and policies that respect people\u2019s right to work<br \/>\nwith dignity. <\/p>\n<p>As we continue our fight to expand access to paid sick days for all<br \/>\nVermont workers, we stand with OUR Walmart workers on Black Friday and<br \/>\nwith fast food workers on the national Day Against Low Pay to build our<br \/>\nmovement for economic justice.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-food Workers Day of Action Dec 5 &#8211; Last August, fast food workers<br \/>\nwent on strike in 60 cities nationwide. On December 5th, we join them<br \/>\nfor a national Day Against Low Pay to demand $15 an hour and a union.<\/p>\n<p>Have a story to tell about struggling to make it on poverty wages, bad<br \/>\nworking conditions, lack of paid sick days or affordable healthcare?<br \/>\nContact us at info@workerscenter.org or call the VT Workers\u2019 Rights<br \/>\nHotline (866) 229-0009.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Vermont Workers\u2019 Center, Vermont IWW, Vermont Fair Food<br \/>\nCampaign, Vermont State Labor Council AFL-CIO, and Occupy Central VT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-wage Workers Rising!: Fighting for a Livable Wage and Paid Sick Days \u2022 12-1pm, McDonald\u2019s, 1205 Williston Rd, South Burlington ( https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/256162754532069 ) \u2022 12-1pm, McDonald\u2019s, 1332 US Route 302 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty-union-party-member-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}