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Paid Sick Leave Gearing Up For 2018 Ballot

(MPRN-Lansing) The campaign to guarantee paid sick leave for Michigan workers is taking aim at the 2018 election ballot. That’s after falling short in its effort to get on this year’s November ballot. 

The campaign is asking a state elections board to approve its new petition. That would clear the way to begin collecting signatures.

The Board of State Canvassers meets later Monday morning. Former Democratic state lawmaker Dave Woodward is leading the paid sick leave drive.

“Our focus right now is to continue to lift up the importance of this issue, and to organize and develop a plan that’s going to create the opportunity for the voters of Michigan to weigh in on this.”

Woodward says the Legislature could preempt the effort by voting on a bill to ensure sick leave for workers. But Republicans in Lansing have been moving in the opposite direction. Governor Rick Snyder signed a law last year to ban local ordinances to guarantee paid sick leave.

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