#28: Sick
When the world's biggest corporations caught wind of the campaign for paid sick leave in New York City, they knew it was a matter of principle. Not the principle of whether working people should have to choose between going to work sick or losing their jobs. No, the principle they seized upon was whether corporations should ever ever have to bow to basic decency, common sense, and the will of regular citizens like you and me. \xa0\n\nIt was a fight they thought they could win. They had the New York Republicans in their pocket. They had the New York Democrats in their pocket.\xa0\n\nBut they forgot that in New York, there's a third party to reckon with, a party utterly beyond the control of the special interests, a party whose name tells you exactly who it works for: the Working Families Party.\xa0
The corporations, it turns out, never had a chance. Last week, the New York City council passed a landmark sick-leave bill that guaranteed protections to more than a million working New Yorkers and\xa0instantly became a model for the nation.\xa0And the Working Families Party rocketed into the national progressive spotlight.\xa0\n\nOn today's show, Dan Cantor of\xa0the Working Families Party explains who\xa0they are, how they won, and what it means for revitalizing progressive politics across America. Tune in and share this episode!