Dude, seriously FUCK Newsweek. Reddit posts this garbage news clickbait crap all the time. Posting Newsweek trash is just a complete waste of time. Use better, local, independent news organizations instead of a rag that just uses clickbait and sensationalism. Fuck off Newsweek.
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I worked for a greenhouse in the Niagara region. We had maybe 2-3 migrant workers at a time and they worked HARD. My boss once said that he would prefer to hire the students from the local horticulture program but he still usually needs a few migrant workers to make sure we get through the season. He then informed me to look closer at the people working the fields around the area. The amount of work being done by migrant workers would simply not get done if they were kicked out. They make up a majority of the labour required so the grocery stores can put 5000 tomatoes on display at a time.
Teens are a really bad workforce to rely on. It's always been understood that kids work for their own benefit, and the business just happens to benefit from that. They need a savings so they can move out on their own when they graduate. This isn't for their benefit, this is so companies can fuel their needs for wage slaves.
The bill have allowed 16 year olds to work 8 hours over night with no lunch/meal break while also attending school during the day. It's slave labor.
Isn't his state the same one that removed worker's protections from heat, like mandatory water and cooling breaks for outdoor workers? Or was that Texas? Fuck both him and Abbot in the temple with a crowbar, either way... Fucking ghouls.
Yeah, FL not just removed it, they stated no local areas could implement their own and that contractors were banned from implementing anything of the sort for their employees. Not sure if anyone has checked on hospitalization/ death from heart exhaustion or heat stroke since that was signed in to law.
Which I'm surprised no cities have challenged this as a sovereignty issue.
Well, not that surprised, but if you're a city government and figure out that a state government can just completely nullify your labor protections...well, it raises questions of just how much actual legal power you have.
I know that legal power and legal challenges mean absolutely nothing now, considering everything, but still, I'm surprised that the Florida SC hasn't been hit with questions of "hey I thought we had a right to self-organize".
Who bans employers from protecting their workers?! Seriously!
Uh, conservatives do. This is not a joke, or a "dunk", this shit really happened.
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The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.
While sane and modern countries use this time to educate children and ensure they don't need to work graveyard shifts during high school even go so far as funding their higher education so they can become highly-functional and productive tax-paying members of society, America begins its foray into bringing back child labor to backfill some of the most grueling and thankless jobs in the country.
Great fucking job you fucks
I don’t think they’re planning on anyone growing up to pay taxes. They wanna make their cash today.
well... isn't this the same crowd that wants to get rid of the IRS?
Yep. "Now that you don't pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you'll still have higher net pay."
It's all for the oligarchs. They don't give a shit about the people.
It’s not about backfilling the jobs, as much as it is about indoctrination into the slave work force and destroying their academic education.
Not even that. I don't think there's a larger political force at work than "we need to make more money and we can pay kids the same wages we paid those immigrants, they won't know their rights anyway."
I don't know why they bother. Unemployment is probably going to be rampant by this time next year. No need to work kids to death when they can just starve them.
Republicans fucking suck
Worse. They actually vote.
I do believe Mr. DeSantis should put his money where his mouth is, and have all of HIS children work these shifts, thus showing effective leadership with a prime example of how parents should treat their children.
I mean, if it's a good policy, he wouldn't mind making his children work, right?
Rules for thee, not for me...
A season in the fields would do his kids good.
I do believe Mr. DeSatan should put a loaded gun where his mouth is.
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We did this already, why must we repeat the worst parts of history?
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
newsweek is a conspiracy peddling right-wing rag, please stop driving traffic to them
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Lol! Good luck getting teenagers to work those kinds of jobs in the 1st place. But expecting them to work overnight, then go to school...without any meal breaks?
LMFAO!! Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea? Unless they're planning on forcing kids to do this, it will never happen.
I think they're expecting an influx of dropping out to enter the ~~wage slave market~~ work force. So for them, it's hitting a triple - less expenses to education, a less educated populace, and a locked-in-for-life service industry workforce.
Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people's) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn't worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.
He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.
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Not the onion.
"No sixteen year olds want to work these days"
I understand you are joking, but can never pass up an opening to post this:
I did corn detasseling for 2-half days (we got rained out on day 1) back when I was 12. I imagine those migrants were much more capable and tolerant of the bs than I was. -I remember the humidity in the fields, the mud, and the desire to vomit.
Not Florida but:
Rotschy, which routinely hired teenage workers amid recent labor shortages, violated the law when supervisors assigned tasks known to be dangerous and prohibited for minors to perform.
‘Beyond failure’ – Washington teen loses legs at school-based work program
Sure, lets hire children for everything, I mean everything:
"I'm bored, my mom grounded me"
"Hey wanna play a game?"
"What?"
"Lets, turn the keys, see what happens."
"..."
"C'mon pussy. There's nothing fun at home anyways, you're grounded. This is gonna be fun!"
"Um... fine..."
"Alright, 3... 2... 1..."
keys are turned simultaneously
🚀🌎🌏💥 (Nuclear ICBM Launched)
There are far less teenagers then migrants. Maybe those businesses should move away from exploitation altogether.
So slaves sorry, prisoners have to pick up the slack.
Remember, the Constitution allows slavery! Plus, it only bans punishments that are cruel and unusual - punishments that are just cruel or just unusual are fine!
This constitution seems to love lines in the sand as drawn by subjective moralists who falsely think they're objective.
Oh yeah, those too, they are definitely next in line.
Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!
-The average conservative voter
Voters? I have no qaulm with voters, I hate that how the elected officials act!
I have no qaulm with voters, I hate that how the elected officials act!
do you not see a connection there?
They act that way, because they know that their voters will still reelect them.
If you push for child labour and have less osha power to keep them safe plus lower regulations on selling tainted meat then on top all that you have courts that don't hold businesses accountable, you'll end up with people eating children that fall in something like an industrial meat grinder and even if people do find out they don't have to recall it, some may even have a choice if they can't afford something better
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