Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce
Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.
“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.
So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”
This is why progressives win when they’re not being undermined by corporate Democrats. Average people, including Republican voters, support this stuff by large majorities most of the time, even in the face of right wing propaganda.
I don’t think they deserve this because they vote Republican. I think they deserve paid sick leave and a higher wage. We should look inward and ask how we’re failing them if they’re voting traitor lunatic.
It’s because we let the Democrats get away with being awful. Their goal is to be barely less evil than Republicans. If they had to actually fight for votes, we’d start to see results.
It’s pronounced “misery”
You keep voting them in though. Enjoy!!!
Yeah, screw the people who can’t afford to leave! Their neighbors are morons so they deserve to eat shit as well!
This is what happened in Ontario. Our premier took away mandatory paid sick days right away and guess what happened next? …Ontario voted for him again 4 years later with a majority. And then they did it again earlier this year.
Never underestimate how stupid the voter base is.
It’s because they do these things strategically. They passed these corporate centric laws that hurt voters in the years when there’s no election. Then they spend the rest of the time pumping social issues that their conservative minded voters care about like abortion and immigration totally overshadowing the thing they did to screw over the voters. And the, now conservative controlled, media helps them to cover it all up.
The thing that is crazy to me about all of this even when midterms come up people will still go out and support the GOP. There is no bottom floor to hit for them.
But the teevee said
cant spell missouri, without misery.
When you vote for GOPers, this is what happens
Have the day you voted for.
Not all of these people voted for this.
If they voted Republican, they voted for exactly this.
There is just no other way to spin it.
Missouri is a 3rd World MAGAt filled Red Oblast. Zero sympathy.
texas, missouri and other red states are technically russia, oligarch owned states.
This administration is definitely trying to kill off the poor
Missourian businesses basically want workhouses… say goodbye to modern ideas of a weekend.
NOTE: Not a literal gut punch.
Thank you for your attention to this grammar.
“Literal” has been used metaphorically for emphasis by better writers than you, centuries before you were born. Shut up.
We should change that. “Literal” is much quite useful for it’s defined meaning, much less so as metaphorical emphasis. It can be mistaken as sarcasm if it’s used incorrectly.
The dictionary changed it the other way a few years ago. Literally now means figuratively. There is no word for what literally used to mean, and that’s apparently OK with them.
I think “veritable” is more fitting.
Oh go fuck yourself you whiney waste of bandwidth.
The person complaining about the natural biological use of language and being accurately corrected is calling others whiney? Shove a grenade up your ass, worthless dumbfuck.
Can you show us on the diagram where the joke hurt you?
Okay boomer
Imagine thinking being anti-prescriptivism is a boomer trait. Your brain’s melted
Fuck Republicans
Wonder how many hourly workers voted for Trump.
In my shithole town I think most of them did. Can’t fucking wait to move to a big city.
They did. I think some of them regretted now. last time I went to a Walmart and workers openingly complained about Trump.
Trump is not on their side. Biden was
If something is voted in, how can ‘lawmakers’ just choose to ignore it ?
Have you not been paying attention for the last 8 years?
It depends on the state. Many states have no means of direct voter legislation. Some do, but the result is a new law, which can be repealed by the legislature as easily as anything else. Some states treat citizen ballot initiatives as more powerful than basic laws (eg, as an amendment to the state constitution) which are generally way harder for politicians to roll back.
Missouri is one of those states that does have direct voter legislation. Able to even get things put in to the state constitution.
Trouble is our chucklefuck idiots will vote for very progressive things in state, but then go full stupid and keep voting for the R next to the name despite overturning our voting for direct legislation for the past decade.
In the US votes don’t actually matter. The democratic and republican party work for corporate donations. So, if everyone votes for issue A, but corporations lobby against it, sometimes for as little as $10,000, then issue will not happen. What are you going to do? Sue? The judges also work for the corporations.
On an article about Republicans it never fails someone both sides the bullshit and brings in Democrats
Well then maybe the Democrats should stop following and supporting Republican policy.
Because they’re all shitty? Are youp claiming that both sides are not shitty?
Thanks, Citizens United.
They’ll forget about it when the petrolum they’re dumping in the water hits the memory centers of their brains
