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[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements
(www.texastribune.org)
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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So how fucked up we want to make everything for the backbone-industry everyone is needing:
US: Yes
Seriously, I can't even understand how people allow this to happen in your own country. It would be political suicide to try this in any place of Germany.
Individual votes don't count nearly as much as corporate cash.
This is the epitome of late stage capitalism in the US.
Your first sentence is absolutely accurate, but I think this specific case is more about sticking it to the libs in the cities that passed these laws, with the side benefit that most of these workers are minorities that the state reps don't like.