Today we released an ad from my 2010 campaign, telling the story of my former colleague Jimmy Lynch, an employee of Grossman Marketing Group for more than 30 years.
This morning, nearly a million of our fellow citizens woke up without a single hour of earned sick time.
A single mom who works three jobs to feed her family but needs a day off when her child has the flu.
Adult children who watch aging parents suffer without the time to take them to the doctor.
The waitperson who works overtime to pay off student loans but goes to work anyway because if she doesn’t go today, there may not be a job for her tomorrow.
I’ve heard the critics who say this policy will cost us jobs, the critics who say, “how can we afford this?”
But having successfully run a family business for more than three decades where we offered high wages and earned sick time, I say, “how can we afford not to?”
When doctors diagnosed my colleague Jimmy Lynch with throat cancer in 2005, he stayed on at full pay for more than six months while he recovered. Jimmy came back and still works at the company today.
Dignity and respect — that’s how you produce great companies. That’s why we need to make earned sick time the law of this Commonwealth.
As governor, I will.
Thanks,
Steve
You can’t relate to people but you want so bad to be loved. Sad dude. You have to resort to reminding people you are rich and one time to you chose not to be a prick when you could have been,
You see steve-o. Most people don’t think like you. You want a parade because you chose to help a person rather than save a few bucks. Hate to tell you this man, but people do that everyday yet don’t make a TV commercial about it. Real sacrifices.
You think you did good because your rich-bean-counting-he-who-dies-with-most-money-wins friends think it’s a big deal that you chose not to completely destroy a family to save a few bucks you will never need.
You really suck Steve. IMHO
this guy is such a tool. The poster boy of born on third and thinks he hit a triple.
I haven’t heard “freakin’ squid” since Teele Square, long, long time ago when it was Slummaville.
Grossman’s a squid.
Mean’s well, but….