Florida has passed legislation banning local safety rules for outdoor workers, despite heat stress set to cost global economy $2.4tn by 2030
I think that those in power really don’t care about the people working in our fields and roads.
I think that enough humans want to actively make the world worse that they will gladly vote for it. “I get more power and status if other people are treated like cattle.”
Failure is comforting. It asks nothing of you. You just wait for that failure to hurt someone else even more grievously, and then you laugh. Many people are happy to vote for complete and total failure.
Not caring would mean having no legislation. This is actively hating them, by banning legislation that would help them.
Trump and Elon chatting about if anyone complains, just fire and replace them.
As has been true for essentially all of human history. They don’t call us serfs anymore but little else has changed.
By design. Entirely by design. DeSantis thrives on cruelty. Hence the “thigh food” story.
From one of the disgusting opinion pieces linked in the Guardian article, written by a corpo douchebag.
But the route to continued progress is critical, and a recent misstep by Miami-Dade County could result in an existential crisis for two of the county’s largest industries: agriculture and construction.
Existential? Ten minute water breaks every two hours will cause an existential crisis? Bullshit.
Proponents point to increased heat incidents in the community, but offer no evidence that ties those occurrences to being work-related or work-caused, let alone related to the agriculture and construction industries.
It’s pretty self evident that working outside in hot conditions, at the requirement of your employer, is by definition a work related activity.
Our industries never were approached by the proposals supporters or its commission sponsors before it was introduced.
Because you all would say no? This argument reeks of corporate entitlement.
it creates a new county “heat police” department funded by the fines they issue on our companies.
Regulation without enforcement is toothless. Also it isn’t like these companies like these constantly skirt regulations anyway and get hit with minor fines that might as well be considered the cost of doing business.
Proponents claim this ordinance will help build stronger agriculture and construction industries here. In reality, it will only wear them down and tear them apart.
Heat-striken workers are less productive, which has much more of an impact than 0.8 hours water breaks over the course of an entire day.
When punishing the poor is more important than productivity.
What an absolute ghoul.
Who could have possibly seen this coming!
Florida is one power outrage away from having mass deaths. Even the people here don’t realize that their air conditioning has become a life support system.
