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·
    9 个月前

    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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

      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·
      9 个月前

      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·
        9 个月前

        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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

      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·
      9 个月前

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

      -Floridiot Republicans, probably.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    46·
    9 个月前

    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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

      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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

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

      • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        9 个月前

        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·
        9 个月前

        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·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

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

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    4·
    9 个月前

    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·
      9 个月前

      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·
    9 个月前

    “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·
      9 个月前

      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·
        9 个月前

        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·
        9 个月前

        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·
          9 个月前

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

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 个月前

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