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Mothers group petitions Disney over sick pay laws

Representatives of a national organization of mothers were prevented on Thursday from delivering a petition to Walt Disney World accusing it of trying to block laws that would require companies to provide paid sick leave for employees."They were turned away and security was called," Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director of MomsRising, told Reuters on Friday.She said only a handful of members of the group were involved in the aborted attempt to hand-deliver the petition and a Disney spokesman, Bryan Malenius, did not immediately return a call from Reuters for comment.Disney employees through their unions, have battled with the company over wages and benefits in the past. In a union documentary called "Mouse Trapped 2010," one employee described having to take handouts from churches to make ends meet.MomsRising, which claims 1 million U.S. members, collected 6,000 signatures in the first 24 hours after drafting a letter that calls on Disney to support healthy workers, Rowe-Finkbein...

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