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Floridians outraged by shameful anti-worker heat law. Here’s how it happened (www.orlandosentinel.com)

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 122 points 6 months ago

"it wasnt the politicians who have families, it was the lobbyists"

fuck you 1000 times.

the politicians vote. they voted for this. name and shame them.

if they dont like it, they should not have voted in favor of hurting human beings on behalf of big business.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Here you go.

[-] acetanilide@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago

For the people with no desire to click:

Votes for:

Baxley
Boyd
Brodeur
Broxson
Burgess
Burton
DiCeglie
Garcia
Hooper
Hutson
Rodriguez
Simon
Yarborough
Perry, VICE CHAIR
Mayfield, CHAIR

Votes against:

Book
Jones
Osgood
Rouson
Torres

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 6 months ago

Too lazy to look up everyone, but all votes against were from Democrats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Senate

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 103 points 6 months ago

Floridians outraged by shameful anti-worker heat law. Here’s how it happened

The GOP, under Mitch McConnell, abandoned all policy issues in favor of just being literally against anything the Democrats are in favor of, under any and all circumstances.
The GOP ramped up the already simmering culture war against immigrants to ridiculous extremes during the Trump administration and conditioned their base that open racism is now acceptable.
The GOP realized that these same immigrants are the ones that do the majority of the fruit picking, landscaping, carpentry, etc., often outside in the scorching heat for 12+ hours per day.
Big businesses, capitalizing on the new-found racism streak in the Republican party which is further amped up in Florida already, lobbied lawmakers to block any and all laws regarding heat management in the state so they could save a few bucks.
Republicans in the state, seeing an opportunity to both make a fuckton of money in ~~bribes~~ "campaign contributions", stick it to brown people at the same time, and make the newly emboldened racist voters in their state happy and therefore more likely to re-elect them, gleefully jumped at the chance to oblige.

That's how it happened. Anything else is a lie.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago

I was thinking it was just the moronic pro business part like with COVID, but combining that with racism makes total sense.

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago

The Florida playbook. Vote for a piece of trash and then complain about the results.

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

"It's all these Californians moving to our state!"

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

Is the answer Republicans?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago

Yes, and the lobbyists and businesses which fund them.

[-] Soundhole@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

The answer is the Voters of Florida.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The voters of Florida constantly voting in idiot Republicans

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

You can thank that spineless asshole, Anthony Kennedy for Citizens United – and much more.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Ron DeSantis.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” sound familiar?

[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Is this some sort of elaborate plan to continue to get rid of immigrants and illegals? Make shitty work environments so they'd leave the state?

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