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Trump Labor Department Launches 'Barrage of Attacks' on Workers

Trump Labor Department Launches 'Barrage of Attacks' on Workers | Common Dreams

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The Trump administration is also rolling back a Biden-era rule that banned bosses from paying subminimum wages to disabled employees.
This discriminatory practice has been on the wane due to state-level bans in 15 states. But in the absence of a federal ban, nearly 40,000 employees—most of whom have intellectual disabilities—still received less than the federal minimum wage as of 2024.
Never fails, they always do the shittiest thing they can.
- Gross.
- Why the fuck would any country do business with us? We're going into the sweatshop business!
  
  That’s been incredibly successful for china, maybe it really is 4d chess to compete with their manufacturing. Genius! Instead of having regulations that promote American business, just deregulate until we have no worker rights, have no standards, and then we can churn out junk from sweatshops! Course, cus it’s murica! It won’t be priced cheap, so extra profits! Hell yeah! GOP, you e done it again! /S
"The authors pointed out that the administration has previously rolled back restrictions meant to protect workers from heat-related stress on the job, which results in more than 600 deaths and over 25,000 injuries each year."
I'm literally dealing with this at my job... I've been recording the temperatures this summer to include the heat index that no one ever considers. It was 109°F 2 weeks ago and will be around 111°F-112°F this Friday... We already had 7 days where the factory was over 100°F