Sweltering summer heat might have been more bearable for outdoor workers in Miami-Dade County under a proposal that suggested mandated breaks in the shade on the hottest days – but Florida said no.
The county’s proposal to establish heat rules for workers has been preempted by a new law: Florida has joined Texas in banning such local rules for outdoor workers. Meanwhile, California, Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington have passed laws giving more protections to construction workers who work in extreme heat.
Florida’s new law has frustrated and angered some experts and advocates for construction workers and farmworkers. As summers get hotter over the years, outdoor workers will need more protections, not fewer, said Luigi Guadarrama, political director of Sierra Club Florida said.
The law will primarily affect low-income workers of color, Guadarrama said: “Currently, the state legislature has no interest in protecting workers."
Other advocates also say more protections for outdoor workers are needed.
“bOTh sIdeS ArE thE sAmE”
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I still remember Florida having to scramble to get their migrant workers back after shitting on them repeatedly. Now that they have them back they can’t resist but to blast those poor workers with more of their dehumanizing legislation
almost like the republiQan party is made up of selfish greedy assholes.
If only. They said the people affected the most will be poor people. Poor people cannot just up and leave.
Because most outdoor laborers are immigrants or illegal immigrants. Making that job more difficult is a oloy to get them to leave the state. Half of Miami doesn’t even speak English, half of my family doesn’t either… But DeSantis just sees us all as “brown” and wants to show he’s strong on immigration by forcing them to stop working and go elsewhere.
This goes for farm hands, other manual laborers too.
It’s just cruel when you come down to It.
I can pretty much guarantee illegals don’t get worker protections so the law saying one thing or another really doesn’t matter.
Businesses can ignore most laws by default until someone sues them. This just removes the lawsuit for this specific thing. Work or die is the law.
The South being The South yet again. Certain folks just can’t achieve orgasm unless they first work a brown person to death and reap economic gain from it.
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There should be a law that you can’t make laws to block laws
Are there any NGO’s that are supporting / helping relocate impacted Floridian immigrant workers to more friendly agriculture states like California? Florida is increasingly proving that the cruelty is the point.
Yeah…I’m not waiting for a mandated break. If I am getting too hot, I am walking to the shade for a quick drink. The problem is that Florida heat is wet heat. Shade doesn’t do much.
If you need to piss urgently, do you politely wiggle, or do you step away and come back in 2 minutes?
Sorry, children working in factories and doing hard labor outdoors, but we simply can’t allow you to have food, water, or access to a toilet. What does this look like, a first world country?
Conservatives are cockroaches. Always have been.
I’m not baffled. Republicans love to punish people, the poorer and not white the better.
It’s only baffling because of projection.
We all understand others in large part by projection. What’s happening here is decent people are projecting their sense of empathy onto people that do not have the capacity to experience it and being surprised. We need to get it into our heads that these people are not going to see the error in their ways and change. We have to remove them power somehow.
We normally talk about projection when right wingers project their fears, ignorance, and crime onto people not in their in-group but that isn’t the only place it exists.
It’s exactly this. Conservatives have a different brain structures that prevents them from learning empathy in a deep sense. They know they are being cruel but can’t imagine what it would like to be in those peoples’ shoes and so they don’t care.
Fucking Republicans
Are the experts actually baffled? Have they not noticed who is running Florida?
It’s USA Today.
So.
Not, like, . . . hard-hitting journalism there.
“Experts disappointed but not surprised” has too many polysyllable words for a headline.
Unions are the answer to this #GOP madness.
DeSantis is hoping to ban those too, I’m sure.
In St. Johns County, on the Atlantic shore of Northeast Florida, more than 55% of public school teachers paid their union dues this last year. Despite that, nearly 3,500 teachers are facing the threat of having their union representation revoked. At the same time, in Southwest Florida, only 16% of law enforcement officers of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office paid union dues last year. Their union is under absolutely no threat of being decertified.
As always, ACAB.
And an additional WTF for DuhSantis’ utter stupidity.
Police unions aren’t labor unions because police aren’t labor. Instead, they’re the enforcers for the ruling class.
Labor unions are good and valid. Police unions are not.
That wasn’t as funny as you made it sound.
