A coalition of the usual suspects on the left held a press conference at the legislature in favor of requiring private businesses in North Carolina to provide paid sick days for their employees. So, which groups think we need to have more unfunded government mandates shoved down the throats of job creators?
AARP North Carolina
AAUW (American Association of University Women)-NC State Chapter
ACORN North Carolina
American Cancer Society
Action for Children North Carolina
The Arc of North Carolina
Children First of Buncombe County
Common Sense Foundation
Covenant with North Carolina's Children
Crisis Assistance Ministry
El Pueblo, Inc.
Friends of Residents in Long-Term Care (FOR-LTC)
Just Economics
Institute for Southern Studies
Moms Rising-NC Chapter
MS Society-Eastern NC Chapter
NAACP-North Carolina State Chapter
NAMI-NC (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina
NC Association of Educators (NCAE)
NC A. Phillip Randolph Institute, Inc.
NC Center for Nonprofits
NC Child Care Coalition
NC Council of Churches
NC Fair Share
NC Justice Center
NC NOW
NC State AFL-CIO
NC Women United
National Association of Social Workers-NC State Chapter
Smithfield Campaign, United Food and Commercial Workers
SEANC/SEIU Local 2008 (State Employees Association of North Carolina)
YWCA of the Greater Triangle
When business owners have to make staffing decisions, they certainly don't need a somebody like the local branch of the National Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League to impose new regulations on them. It is good to see the NCAE standing up for teachers, except that teachers already have paid sick days.
Listen up entrepreneurs! These people know what's best for your business. Just sit back and enjoy it.
Tell it like it is Mixon!
I don’t think the groups can “impose” any regulations on anybody. They can participate in the democratic process, but apparently not without being vilified.
Interesting that you didn’t call out other groups specifically, like the ARC of North Carolina that helps people with disabilities, or the MS Society, or the radically leftist YWCA.
You’re right Porter. These groups can’t impose anything on small business. But their willing allies that they help elect certainly can.
As to your other comment, it is a shame to see real social service charities become involved politically with the likes of NARAL and ACORN and the rest of the professional victims groups.
Employees will lose either benefits or jobs as a result of this bill’s passage. But, thanks for reading Red Clay Citizen and please come again.
Whatever happened to private agreements between two parties as to the conditions of work? What business is it of the governemnt if someone agrees to work in a business that does not provide for sick leave?
People should be free to make their own choices. It is not the proper function of government to get involved in this, unless there is force or fraud involved somewhere. And I assure you that there isn’t.
And I guess that the socialists-at-heart are just giddy with excitement at both the state and federal levels these days. Let’s get working on the 2010 legislative and congressional elections, so we can throw these weasels out.