Voters Want Paid Leave – New Bill Delivers
February 22, 2024
Statistics show that nearly 76% of working people across Wisconsin, that’s nearly 2.4 million workers, do not have access to paid family and medical leave through their employer. That translates to more than 2 million Wisconsinites having to make difficult decisions between work and caring for their families. Voters across the state have made it…
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We Stand in Solidarity with Wisconsin Unions
December 5, 2023
Recently, a group of unions representing public employees, including teachers, filed a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin Act 10. This law, signed the law in 2011 by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker despite some of the largest protests in state history, stripped collective bargaining rights from most public employees in the state. Forever changing the political landscape…
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Spring 2022 Wrap-Up
June 13, 2022
As I celebrate one year of my role as State Director for the 9to5 Wisconsin Chapter, I want you to know that I stand committed to achieving economic justice for ALL working women in our community – a historically diverse community that has belonged to all of us. As an Asian-American woman raised by refugees,…
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Celebrating Our Asian American Pacific Islander Community
May 12, 2022
HAPPY SPRING! ❀ This May, it’s important to reflect about the seeds our ancestors have sown to fully appreciate what we have today and where we’d like to go. Though there is so much more work to be done to achieve full economic and racial justice, we must plant before we can harvest As we…
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Paid Parental Leave Ordinance Passes in Milwaukee County
April 15, 2022
9to5 celebrates the passage of paid parental leave in Milwaukee.
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History is Made in Milwaukee, WI
April 8, 2022
Dear friends, History has been made. On April 5th, we elected our first African American mayor in Milwaukee! Congratulations to Mayor Cavalier Johnson! 9to5 Wisconsin came together with community partners to ensure Milwaukee’s top priorities for our next mayor include being a city where all residents can thrive and live dignified lives, where schools are…
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Wisconsin’s Organizer Monthly – March 2022
March 31, 2022
March 16, 2022 marked one year since the tragic spa shooting in Atlanta, GA that took the lives of 8 people and injured several others.This senseless act of violence not only rocked the AAPI community, but the nation as a whole. In a national report shared by Stop AAPI Hate, a total of 10,905…
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Welcome to the Team, Christina!
July 15, 2021
Join us in wishing a very warm welcome to our new 9to5 Wisconsin State Director, Christina Thor. Christina comes to us with an impressive background in civic engagement, communications and development in the nonprofit sector. Christina joins us with an admirable history in civic engagement work. Her background in leading communications and development in the…
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