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723 Oak Street
Columbus, OH 43205
Phone: (614) 222-4735
Fax: (614) 221-9655

Topic of the Week

National Breastfeeding Month and Your Rights at Work

Blog of the Week

Working people are so screwed: Rents spike and minimum wage hits its lowest value since 1956

The average wage needed for someone to afford a market-rate one-bedroom apartment rental in this country is $21.25 per hour. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. It’s not hard to see the problem here.

Both sides of the equation are responsible: The rent is too damn high and the pay is too damn low.

Thought for the Week

We’re talking about basic protections like ensuring pregnant women have a stool or a water bottle so they can stay on the job, or that all nursing moms have the time and space they need to pump. We’ve been fighting for years to get these bills across the finish line. …With reproductive rights under attack — and with a formula crisis still putting stress on parents’ shoulders — the very last thing anyone should have to worry about is losing their job because they’re pregnant or nursing.

–Senator Patty Murray

List of the Week

from Pregnant@Work

Breastfeeding discrimination takes many forms, including:

denying pumping break requests from workers who are in pain and leaking milk
firing them just for asking
refusing to provide privacy or safe conditions
crude comments on their body

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