National Day of Action on August 26, 2012
Join 9to5 for our National Day of Action to support paid sick days. It’s time to strengthen our families and rebuild America.
I Can’t Wait to Do It Again
9to5 Action Network activist stops foot traffic at her local library in Houston to talk about 9to5 and paid sick days. Empowered, energized and psyched, she is ready to do it again!
Stand with 9to5 to end the Death Penalty
9to5 knows that we will never achieve full equality and economic empowerment if we don’t combat all forms of oppression. In our commitment to end all forms of oppression, we are opposed to legalized state executions because of its inherent systemic race and class discrimination.
Media Coverage: Binders Full of Women Come Up Empty
Women represent more than half of the electorate and nearly half the workforce. So you’d think that President Obama and Governor Romney, vying to win the women’s vote, would focus on pay equity and its direct link to a healthy economy. But no, it took a woman to raise the question just three weeks before the presidential election.
Media Coverage: Give Poverty the Attention it Deserves in the Debate
It’s time we give poverty, particularly child poverty, the attention it deserves. A good place to start would be the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3.
Media Release: Top 10 Ways to Rebuild the Middle Class
A day after the Census Bureau reported that family income is the lowest in 16 years, a new report provides a roadmap to increase wages and benefits for strapped working and middle-class families.
Media Release: Working Women Unite to Get Economy Working Again
On August 26, 2012, in celebration of Women’s Equality Day, 9to5 members and activists in 18 cities across the country will register voters and encourage them to call on their candidates to support earned sick days.
Media Coverage: Speak Out for Equal Pay
Pay equity stimulates the economy and reduces poverty.
Media Release: Pay Gap to be Protested Across the Country
9to5 is organizing people across the country to protest the pay gap that is shortchanging women an average of $10,000 annually; the equivalent of 88 weeks of groceries or 13 months of rent.
Media Coverage:Short-Lived Pay Equity Law Appears Headed for Repeal
With women nationally still earning 78 cents on the dollar compared to men, supporters of the state’s 2-year-old pay equity law say now is not the time to quit working for pay equality.