Women's March for Dignity: Paid Sick Days for All!
March 8th, Noon , beginning at Christ Episcopal Church
64 State Street, Montpelier

“The rising of the women is the rising of us all!” –A slogan from the 1912 Bread & Roses strike in Lawrence, MA

This year, we’re marking International Women’s Day by celebrating dignity and the strength of our sisters, mothers, daughters, partners, and grandchildren.

Join us to march on Montpelier for paid sick days for ALL at noon on March 8th. March meet up point: Christ Episcopal Church: 64 State Street in Montpelier. After the march, stay for a community speakout and celebration with music and snacks!

From this holiday’s beginning, March 8th has been about women organizing to demonstrate our essential – but so often denied – roles in the economy.

Women are the majority of workers in low-wage industries, and jobs that are part-time or temporary. These jobs tend to lack paid sick days. While making up nearly half of the country’s workforce and doing two-thirds of caregiving nationally, about half of women are denied crucial rights at work – rights that would support our dignity, livelihoods and families.

The struggle for paid sick days is a struggle for the future of our communities. It’s a struggle to ensure that the work our children and grandchildren inherit will be meaningful, dignified, and worthy of our humanity.

Like the struggles for a minimum wage and the weekend, the struggle for paid sick days in 2014 will bring our economy one step closer to one where the essential needs of all workers are fulfilled. The struggle for the right to organize by Vermont’s early educators and to bring our minimum wage up closer to a livable wage also advance us closer to this vision.