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‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave (www.theguardian.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34329504

Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce

Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.

“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.

So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”

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[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 37 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

It was always crazy to me how many of my coworkers thought their breaks were legally protected by law. Spoiler. They’re not. That’s for child labor not adults. Only protection we had was our union and they crapped on it all the time claiming they had a federal right to breaks anyway… can’t fix stupid.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In some states some breaks are. If we all unionized we wouldn't be dependent on getting rights like that codified.

[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 0 points 6 hours ago

Codifying mandatory breaks for adults is great. But also non-existent in my state (unless again you’re a minor which many of those rules they’re working on repealing). I imagine it does only exist in Union-strong states that lobbied heavily for the right. Or non-union states with tight knit unions that still believe in solidarity.

One of the truest brothers I ever met was out of TN. He walked off our site day one because of water conditions and our foreman’s shit attitude. I was a baby apprentice then but the harassment I got and the treatment I witnessed my elderly coworkers receive on that job, I wish I’d have taken them to hell and back. Back then I was just trying to survive and shelter the owner because small town bullshit. That traveller was also a flea though. I’m sure. Shame they’re a bunch a racists and bigots. Daddy flea won’t let women or minorities rank. Iykyk.

But—different union but, my stepdad salted for years all over the country. If you don’t know what salting is these are the tactics we need to bring back if we hope to survive. If I ever go back to the states I’m finding a salt friendly union (my intl is too sold down the road) to offer my services. If I’m not flipping companies I’m bankrupting them. Only noble pursuit left in the shithole country.

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