Coloradans for the Common Good Leverages Grocery Worker Win: Paid Sick Leave and Emergency Childcare

At the urging of Coloradans for the Common Good and the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), Governor Jared Polis expanded the consideration of "essential workers" to include food and grocery store workers on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. The protections include emergency paid leave and child care, and will benefit 20,000 grocery store and commercial food processing workers across the state.

In a meeting with the Governor, faith and labor leaders successfully made the case that grocery store workers are essential and should be eligible for supports then-available only to front-line medical workers.

[Photo Credit: Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar]

Colorado Emergency Child Care Expands to include Grocery, Construction WorkersChalkbeat [pdf]  

What About Grocery Store Workers? Advocates Push Colorado to Extend Emergency Child CareChalkbeat [pdf

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