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What do you call it when state legislators refuse to provide paid sick days for average Ohio workers ---while asking those same workers to pay for the legislators’ sick days?

Ohioans for Healthy Families calls it “hypocrisy” ---with a “capitol” H.

On April 8, spokespersons for the 200-organization statewide coalition fighting to bring paid sick days to Ohio will lift the veil on the General Assembly’s own practices regarding paid sick days.

OHF communications director Dale Butland previewed the news conference this way:

“ 42% of Ohio’s private sector workforce ---some 2.2 million people ---don’t have a single paid sick day they can use to take care of themselves or their families when illness strikes. And despite the fact that 270,000 voters from all 88 Ohio counties signed petitions asking the General Assembly to enact it, the Ohio Healthy Families Act continues to collect dust nearly three months after going to the legislature.

“But thanks to a public records request, the legislative leadership’s hypocrisy is clear. The politicians themselves enjoy paid sick days ---and at taxpayer expense. In fact, they take paid days off for all kinds of reasons. It’s time Ohioans knew the truth about their elected representatives.”

Watch it:

Urge your legislator to ENDORSE and DEMAND consideration of this bill now!