Nebraska voters will likely have the chance this year to decide whether to require the state's employers to provide workers with paid sick leave after organizers behind the petition drive turned in more than 138,000 signatures to election officials Thursday.
Sierra Edmisten of Hastings (left) high-fives Jo Giles, executive director of the Women’s Fund of Omaha, after signing the affidavit for filing petition pages at the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office on Thursday.
Paid Sick Leave Nebraska coalition advocates carry boxes of petitions into the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel on Thursday. Petition organizers turned in 138,000 signatures to the Secretary of State.
Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans coalition members Noel Tonniges of Omaha (right) and Sierra Edmisten of Hastings (left) deliver boxes of signed petitions to the Secretary of State's Office at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln on Thursday. Petition organizers turned in 138,000 signatures.
Sierra Edmisten of Hastings (left) high-fives Jo Giles, executive director of the Women’s Fund of Omaha, after signing the affidavit for filing petition pages at the Nebraska Secretary of State's Office on Thursday.
Paid Sick Leave Nebraska coalition advocates carry boxes of petitions into the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel on Thursday. Petition organizers turned in 138,000 signatures to the Secretary of State.
Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans coalition members Noel Tonniges of Omaha (right) and Sierra Edmisten of Hastings (left) deliver boxes of signed petitions to the Secretary of State's Office at the Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln on Thursday. Petition organizers turned in 138,000 signatures.
