✊🧵🚨SOLIDARITY THREAD ALERT🚨🧵✊Employers that pay low-wages have left too many Ohioans without enough financial cushion to survive a period of unemployment. We need policymakers to step up and prove we’re really #AllInThisTogether. #MayDay
In honor of #InternationalWorkersDay & #MayDay -- and because Ohio's working people need action *now* -- we released our report on four essential policies to sustain Ohio workers. You can read it in full here:
1⃣: Policymakers must protect workers on the job with safety protocols and gear, careful reopening of businesses that follows health officials’ guidance, and oversight. bit.ly/4_policies_2020
3⃣: Policymakers must quickly deliver unemployment benefits to working people displaced by the pandemic--and they must make permanent the currently-expanded eligibility for people with low incomes and gig workers. bit.ly/4_policies_2020
4⃣: Policymakers must ensure all working Ohioans have access to emergency paid sick leave now, and earned sick leave going forward. bit.ly/4_policies_2020
Lawmakers can use smart, compassionate policy to help Ohioans get through & beyond the #COVID crisis. The solution exists--now we need leaders to make it happen. bit.ly/4_policies_2020
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Yesterday the #Census released new data that show how Americans fared last year w/ a caveat: the pandemic ended doorknocking early and caused a pretty big undercount.
Everyone should be able to put food on the table and keep the lights on - even during tough times. But when the health crisis hit, and necessary public health orders caused many people to lose their jobs, a lot of people didn't have reserves needed.
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People are suffering because of decisions made by some of our elected leaders who are more accountable to what's best for corporations instead of what's best for people.
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Like most of us, @GovMikeDeWine wants Ohio to be a healthy place to live.
Unlike most of us, he has the power to enact statewide policy solutions to help all Ohioans thrive, regardless of race, status or wealth.
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@GovMikeDeWine took a step toward a healthy Ohio for everyone when he convened his Minority Health Strike Force. Now that team has delivered a detailed blueprint for health equity in our state:
Thread: This #Labor Day, let’s reflect on how Ohio’s working ppl have stepped up during COVID-19: the ICU nurse tending to a gravely ill patient, the janitor keeping the building safe and clean, the meatpacking workers making sure we have food to eat despite their high risk. 1/
Every #LaborDay, we release our “State of Working Ohio” report. We look back at how working ppl fared over the last year. This year we’re focused on policies to provide working ppl w/ a much needed “reset” and longer-term reforms to “unrig” the economy 2/ policymattersohio.org/research-polic…
Before COVID-19 struck, working Ohioans produced record wealth, but they weren’t sharing in it the way they should have been. The wealthiest captured most of the gains. #LaborDay 3/
Most Ohioans have been doing our part to take care of each other – from wearing masks to running errands for neighbors. But years of bad policy -- sponsored by and in service to corporations & the wealthy -- have left us vulnerable.
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State leaders are sitting on billions in the rainy day fund and unspent federal funding, even as many Ohioans are on the brink of disaster, many more are already there, and long-neglected public programs that help us all are eroded even further.
Ohio lawmakers can extend the Art Modell Law to other businesses. The law, passed after the Browns' owner moved the team to Baltimore, requires pro sports teams to give at least 6 months’ notice of intent to leave, and give locals the opportunity to buy the franchise. 2/
Strengthen WARN Act protections & enforcement. The Federal Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires large employers give 60 days’ notice to the state & workers before a big layoff. Some states include smaller firms & layoffs and provide severance pay 3/