The Florida State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit local agencies from implementing heat protections for workers. The GOP-controlled Senate voted 28-11 to pass the bill, which would…
  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    104·
    10 months ago

    Supporters of the bill say it will establish uniform regulations instead of having inconsistent rules across the state…

    That doesn’t sound too bad.

    Florida employers would be required to follow general rules set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which has not yet issued standards for dangerously high temperatures.

    Oh…

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    54·
    10 months ago

    I worked for the better part of a decade on a golf course in Florida doing manual labor. There were a few instances of guys getting heat stroke and having to go to the ER while I was employed there. That’s WITH bosses who drove around during the hot months with ice water and Gatorade for us and made sure we were taking breaks. This makes me sick…

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      29·
      10 months ago

      I’ve been in industrial environment in the Midwest for about 5 years. While I’ve been here 4 people have collapsed due to heat stroke.

      That’s with mandatory 5-10 minute breaks in a cool room every 30-60 minutes, Gatorade and ice water being given freely, even ice cream and popsicles.

      Prolonged heat waves are no fucking joke. Heat protection isn’t enough, when it’s too hot to cool off with sweat and a fan, it’s too fucking hot to work in the heat, full stop.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      27·
      10 months ago

      The fucking military stops working outside when the heat gets to be too much. These guys are asking more of the workers than we ask of soldiers.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        Yup, medics will roll up with their wet bulb thermometer, (basically a thermometer with some wet cotton on the bulb, to be able to measure how well sweat will be able to cool you down,) and they have a chart for different working times at different temperatures. When it’s too hot, they pull their people out and let them rest.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    46·
    10 months ago

    BANNING?!?!?!?!

    Florida, I’ve said it before, but I apparently have to say it again. You are voting against your own interests when you keep voting for the Republicans you’ve elected. You are ruining your own lives, and deserve what you get at this point until you make some changes.

    • vortic@lemmy.world
      24·
      10 months ago

      Here’s the thing. Right wing media will simply ignore this. Most republican voters won’t be informed that their representatives are taking way their right to a safe work environment. I’m not sure if it would change anything if they were aware but they don’t stand a chance when they’re stuck in their echo chamber.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      19·
      10 months ago

      So what? One of “those” “people” I don’t like will be hurt more!

      -Floridiot Republicans, probably.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    46·
    10 months ago

    They have to abide by the federal standards. Oh okay.

    There are no federal standards. What the goddamn fuck. Orphan crushing machine isn’t supposed to be a literal label!

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    301·
    10 months ago

    Everything in FL comes down to how can be we as cruel or racist/hateful as possible in terms of policy.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      Not to defend this action, but under the theory that politics selects for narcissistic sociopaths …. It may “simply” be consolidating their own personal power without caring what affects it has on others

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    24·
    10 months ago

    Basically what all of our ancestors fought blood and died for in the second American Civil War they don’t tell you about, they want to take those rights away. They want to enslave the American worker have no doubts about it. American Heroes who died in the streets of Pittsburgh, who died charging the trenches at Blair Mountain, who died fighting for our freedom all over this country are watching us today. That’s the battle make no mistake about it.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      12·
      10 months ago

      Profit over people, particularly if you think that the construction and farm workers who are outdoors have darker skin.

      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        10 months ago

        It’s more than that because after a certain point your workers dying from heat stroke isn’t profitable…

        The pathetic truth is that it really isn’t about money, it’s simply about hate.

        Hate for the poor, hate for immigrants, hate for a brown construction worker standing in the shade getting 5 mins of relief coming from another Karen driving by in her BMW on her way to an AC’d office (look, they aren’t even doing any work! she says exasperatedly to her luxury car dashboard).

        It’s just about the hate at this point, money be damned.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        It’s unprofitable to pay for workers visits to the hospital. Even if you have insurance, which goes up with repeated “accidents”, you’re paying in lost productivity.

  • glovecraft@infosec.pub
    13·
    10 months ago

    The party of small government and local governance strikes again. What city passed basic worker protections to set them off like this? Gainesville? Orlando?

    • Manos@lemm.ee
      61·
      10 months ago

      Texas did the same thing a year or two ago. Florida is just following the leader.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    4·
    10 months ago

    can we stage an airlift rescue of people in Florida and get them to a state that doesn’t suck as much? Say, a lone pack of skyscrapers in northern Montana or Idaho? We can re-settle them from there, like immigrants WITH citizenship.

    • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      10 months ago

      It really seems like red state conservative legislators just sit around brainstorming about how to make people’s lives more miserable, so that they can help the rich get richer.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    34·
    10 months ago

    “Supporters of the bill say it will establish uniform regulations instead of having inconsistent rules across the state, NBC News first reported.”

    I agree with this. There’s shouldn’t be a dozen different water break policies across a state. Especially when it effects a lot of people in lawn care and construction and road work that go all over the place for jobs. There should only be one good set of regulations for breaks and temp and humidity and what have you that blanket covers the state. There isn’t any good reason that every city or county should each have their own. The state needs to make a good one.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      10·
      10 months ago

      Sure, but there aren’t any other rules, so what you get is employers putting people in danger:

      Florida employers would be required to follow general rules set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which has not yet issued standards for dangerously high temperatures, NBC News noted.

      Which is the whole point of this.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
        11·
        10 months ago

        Or as the first manager of my last job said “I don’t have to give you SHIT except 20 minutes for lunch, and ONLY if your ass is here for 8 hours or more”

        If they can get away with giving you nothing, then nothing is what you will get.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        10 months ago

        Hence when I said the state should make a set of good ones. It shouldn’t be a county to county and city to city issue.

        Then, if you did vote to to make it one, what of all the cities that don’t make a policy? Or make a shitty one?

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
          1·
          10 months ago

          One easy option would be: we have a minimum standard, and people can choose something stricter if local conditions warrant.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

      The state and the federal government don’t have one. This is actually to prevent any protections from being put in place at all.