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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 113 points 5 months ago (20 children)

The bill’s passage comes after the state’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country. That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.

The fact that that would have been among the most stringent protections in the country is incredibly sad. Those protections should be in place nationwide by default at a minimum. Nobody benefits from overheated workers, who are human beings by the way. I feel like it’s so much easier to just be decent and take care of peoples’ basic needs.

You’re a monster if you don’t think your workers deserve to have a few minutes in the shade whenever the fuck they want. People will work harder if they feel like they’re safe and respected. Everybody wins.

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I've been told that the armies in many countries use sliding scales of work-rest cycles based on temperature and humidity. For example in Canada, above 35°C you may only have half the crew working 30 minutes on 30 minutes off. Meaning you have 50% of the work being done 100% of the time. Hydration and heat stroke checks are strongly enforced as well. The American army does similar if I've been told correctly.

How American civilians and labourers are not allowed these very same standards is insane to me. People die because of this shit and unions are just okay with this?

[–] force@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Taft-Hartley act and Reagan almost completely fucking neutered unions. We should have listened to Truman...

[–] Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I look at American politics it really seems like almost all modern problems can be blamed on Nixon and Reagan.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a shift in that era, you can't just throw it all on them. Other crazy things are boiling in the background, there was weird Cali politics that don't get talked about enough. It was also the era where conservative think tanks came into real power once they realized that you could just throw a ton of money at it, generate a shit load of paper and if you had enough paper people started taking you seriously, no matter if it was based in reality. As long as it was what people wanted to hear.

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