DeSantis signs bill banning heat protection laws for outdoor workers
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/desantis-signs-bill-banning-heat-protection-laws-for-outdoor-workers/
DeSantis signs bill banning heat protection laws for outdoor workers
https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/desantis-signs-bill-banning-heat-protection-laws-for-outdoor-workers/
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“The intent of the bill is to ensure that employers have the ability to govern themselves and make sure they create the best working environment for their employees,” said bill sponsor Sen. Jay Trumbell (R-Panama City).
What an absolute ghoul.
Giving people heatstroke to own the libs
Man, I hope OSHA eats him like a light snack.
Cool, so this is going to kill people, and now the companies are shielded from all liability for it. No problems here.
He truly is Satan’s helper – with of course Trump being Satan
Dick
Just in case you were worried that being out of the national spotlight would cause him to act like any less of a piece of shit.
“No siree, won’t find no wokeness around *here*” – last words of a FL construction worker before succumbing to heat exhaustion
The point is to torture people needlessly at this point, right?
It’s so weird- like, at this point the way to get ahead in Republican politics is to just cause as much harm to as many people as possible for no reason, and it gets about half the country’s votes. I understand that most people tune out politics generally, and a lot of people essentially refuse to believe the Republicans do the things they do, but it feels like there’s not really an upper limit to that.
Is this like the GOP’s version of legislating climate change?
If people are more likely to get heat stroke in the future, just remove those pesky health protections!
The world temperature’s heat record has been broken for 10 consecutive months. Because of Republicans. They are the most vile creatures on earth. They shouldn’t even be allowed to be around children.
It’s not that difficult or expensive to provide an E-Z Up, folding chairs, and water dispenser near the foreman’s pickup. Federal OSHA requires some attention to this issue. I don’t get it.
no more woke, just heat stroke.
Hey Skilled Workers, the Republicans have grave disdain for you. They do not give a fuck about health and well-being. Also, they really suck at economics despite their meme about it.
Stop voting Republican. They do not want to have a beer with you. They are also totally copacetic with your death from heat.
You know all those movies you watched where there was a villain who wanted to hurt people just because they could? Because they’re damaged in the head and choose to take it out on everyone around them in some desperate effort to feel better about themselves?
DeSantis is a real life version of one of those villains.
You’d think the governor of a state that relies on [150,000-200,000 migrant and seasonal farm workers](https://www.floridahealth.gov/environmental-health/migrant-farmworker-housing/index.html) wouldn’t be going out of his way to keep them from doing their jobs safely — or wanting to do these jobs at all.
Those oranges and tomatoes aren’t going to pick themselves.
You know who votes? Sketchy republican business owners. (That and make campaign donations)
You know who doesn’t get to vote? The undocumented migrant labor they employ.
This is just one bill among many introduced by red state legislators to reign in home rule by their blue cities. It is a nationwide push; we have this going on in Texas as well. It wouldn’t surprise me if the bill came from the American Legislative Executive Council, one of the groups under the Council for National Policy umbrella.
Houston Chronicle – [Gov. Abbott proposes an agenda that would undermine the power of local voters](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Special-session-11200783.php)
“Gone are the days when the Republican Party of Texas could be counted on to defend local control. No longer do Texas conservatives believe that government closest to the people is the best kind of government. Instead we’ve witnessed the emergence of a political movement dedicated to stealing power away from local voters and moving it to Austin, where big money donors have created a one-stop shop to get what they want out of government.”
Houston Public Media – [‘Death Star’ bill in Texas House would strip power from local officials, critics say](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2023/04/18/449432/death-star-bill-state-strips-local-power-texas-house/)
“’This bill is a hostile and sweeping power grab by partisan state officials designed to decimate our basic ability to govern ourselves at the local level, to disenfranchise Houstonians, and to block the passage of policies that improve the lives of working people and are popular with Houstonians,’ said Hany Khalil, Executive Director of the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation.”
NYT – [Texas Is Silencing the Will of Millions of Voters](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/opinion/texas-preemption-bill.html)
“By reducing the right of localities to make their own decisions, Texas has joined dozens of other states that have asserted their dominance over cities in recent years through a practice known as state pre-emption. One watchdog group has counted more than 650 pre-emption bills in state legislatures this year; the large majority have been introduced by Republican lawmakers to curb policymaking in cities run by Democrats.”
“The 20th-century movement toward ‘home rule,’ letting localities handle most of their own affairs, was once supported by both Republicans and Democrats. What’s now become clear is that Republicans dislike local control if they are not in charge of it. The home rule movement has steadily faded in the last few decades as state lawmakers on the right have become more aggressive in invalidating the priorities of elected officials in cities, which have moved leftward in their voting patterns in recent years.”
“Some cities, including Nashville, Cleveland and Coral Gables, Fla., have fought back and won in court; in Maryland, Florida and several other states, Democrats have joined Republican moderates to beat back some of these bills. But in many other states, the will of the people in these cities is being silenced. They and their representatives will have to use every legal means available to be heard.”
WikiPedia -[American Legislative Exchange Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council)
“Alex Hertel-Fernandez, the author of State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States — and the Nation wrote “Of the 62 ID laws states considered during the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, more than half were proposed by lawmakers who… were all participants in the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. In exchange for their payments of $50 per year in membership dues, those legislators had access to a draft proposal for strict voter ID requirements”.”
Washington Post – [God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group](https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/)
“In August 2019, Lisa Nelson, a [Council for National Policy] member and chief executive of the American Legislative Exchange Council, launched an initiative called ‘ALEC Political Process Working Group,’ according to an internal email. Among other things, the group was going to focus on “election law and ballot integrity.’ (In a letter to funders defending that effort this year, [Anne] Nelson said the group ‘connected legislators with each other as well as federal officials to discuss process and governance issues including the census, redistricting and other issues related to how state governments work.’)”
I hope Republicans enjoy their “freedoms” and “free market” as they are dying of heat stroke. Remember, you voted for this. Gobbless
“The illegal immigrant laborers we’re hiring under the table are the only ones affected by this law anyway” — Conservative contractors
Just look for the Trump bumper stickers on the contractor trucks picking up illegal day workers at the Home Depot. You gotta love that kind of irony.
“That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”, Lincoln. Today’s Republican is as far from the party of Lincoln as it is from the teachings of Jesus.
In a state that’s facing labor shortages, rising housing prices, insane insurance premiums, and an exodus of any and all talent, Desantis goes ahead and creates an open season for hostility for construction and infrastructure employees.
It’s like Florida is speedrunning towards becoming the worst country in the world to live in.
Blue collar Republicans will defend this.
Florida, Texas and Kentucky have been at the forefront of a GOP movement to degrade workers’ rights… and somehow a large percentage of working class voters think the GOP is on their side.
Shut off all air conditioning for every building that DeSantis occupies. No breaks of any kind either. Or platform shoes.
so what happens when the state declares extreme heat warnings? pass out and get fired?
The people of Florida should demand that the a/c be turned off for legislative sessions and DeSantis’s office and just let things play out as they might.
How’s that for the employers governing themselves?
Ah, cartoon villain shit again.
lol as a Canadian I have to laugh cause I have so many blue collar friends moving to Florida thinking life will be better cause cost of living is insane here.
To which I say good -fuckin’ – luck
Break up the unions and deny basic human rights. They should be chased out of their comfortable homes with torches and pitchforks, but instead will get re-elected