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silence7 ( silence7@slrpnk.net ) M to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 years ago

US Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren't there laws to protect them?

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US Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren't there laws to protect them?

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silence7 ( silence7@slrpnk.net ) M to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 3 years ago
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Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren't there laws to protect them?
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“We’re asking for something so simple. Something that could save so many lives.”
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  • ____ ( ____@infosec.pub ) 
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    TX recently passed a law that invalidates/prohibits local ordinances mandating water breaks.

    It’s not just that the laws aren’t there, it’s also because people like Abbot are doing everything they can to remove those protections.

  • Infynis ( Infynis@midwest.social ) 
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    I will give you two guesses

    • WalrusDragonOnABike ( WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social ) 
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      To give workers the autonomy to keep working if they want to? /j

  • lntl ( lntl@lemmy.ml ) 
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    the cost of life, it seems to get cheaper

    out in the desert, with my street sweeper

    • Bartsbigbugbag ( Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Is that you, or is it from something? I like it. Is there more?

      • getoffthedrugsdude ( getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml ) 
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        “Dirty Harry” by Gorillaz, enjoy

        • Bartsbigbugbag ( Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ) 
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          Oh man you’re right. I haven’t heard that in a long time. I just saw Deltron live, too, I should’ve recognized that. Thanks!

  • Pat_Riot ( Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ) 
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    The cruelty is the point

  • blazera ( blazera@kbin.social ) 
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    Because those workers elect people who oppose any benefit to them.

    • Gormadt ( Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Not always, there’s a lot of people involved in elections and it takes a majority AND having to get past decades of gerrymandering to make it happen.

  • sin_free_for_00_days ( sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    In a word? Capitalism.

    • interolivary ( interolivary@beehaw.org ) 
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      In two words? Fucking capitalism.

  • JokeDeity ( JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 
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    I’ve noticed that labor laws don’t really work in America anyway. Most of my jobs I’ve had in my life have been operating under several OSHA violations, and my current job tops the cake on that front, daily there are likely dozens of OSHA violations, but OSHA doesn’t do jack fucking shit about any of it, inspections hardly exist, and when they do management mysteriously knows they are coming and what to hide.

  • Sarmyth ( Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) BannedBanned
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    Removed by mod

  • MonkderZweite ( MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ) 
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    Because US makes laws are reactionary.

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