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Florida Ban on Protections for Outdoor Workers Goes Into Effect Amid Record Heat
  • Public records obtained by the Orlando Weekly showed that Associated Builders and Contractors lobbyist Carol Bowen sent a text message to the chief of staff of House Speaker Paul Renner, saying, “I haven’t texted you in weeks — HEAT cannot die.” Another lobbyist from Associated Industries of Florida texted asking “Are you all looking to put the wage stuff back on?” referring to the living wage preemption component, which at one point was cut from the bill.

    The Florida Chamber of Commerce would go on to further pressure lawmakers by threatening to double-weight the vote on HB 433 in their legislative report card, meaning they would be doubly penalized for voting against the bill. This report card can later be weaponized against lawmakers in political ads and is used by the chamber to determine who to donate to and against, with the chamber giving $1.44 million to campaign accounts from October 2023 to March 2024 and Associated Industries of Florida giving about $1.8 million in the same time frame.

    These are the same lobbying interests that in the same legislative session supported a rollback of child labor protections to allow minors to work more than eight hours a day and more than 30 hours a week during the school year. They also lobbied for a state-level preemption of rent stabilization measures that were approved by voters in Orange County.

    HB 433 was ultimately passed on March 8, around the time that Miami-Dade County would have taken up its deferred ordinance to establish local heat stress protections. Reached for comment, the Farmworker Association of Florida noted that the “same lawmakers and governor who unanimously supported common sense heat protections for student-athletes” did not extend the same protections to the “hard-working communities that produce the food that sustains us, and that build and maintain the critical infrastructure that we rely on.”

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  • In the US, did Amazon kill the mall, is everyone too broke, or a combination of other factors?
  • In addition to the other replies, items there were just too expensive. Now, items are too expensive without the mall, and it's not to do with regular/mid-low level management, supply chain costs, but due to price gouging, in order to pay executive, board, and and other major share holders/investors. (See the Economic Policy Institute reports on this, for more info).

  • Do billionaires work monday to friday like all 9-5s?
  • Ok but 38 hours a week for sleep, hygiene? For years? Sleep deprivation alone causes serious mental and physical health issues and don't just impact the sole individual. That's deific, and I can see why the gods have issues, and they rest, according to the mythos.

  • Do billionaires work monday to friday like all 9-5s?
  • I'm not buying 180 hour work weeks, that only leaves 38 hours or so for meals, bathing, etc. I'm not buying 100 hour work weeks for 24 years, either. I am curious what industries need graveyard shift receptionists that aren't illegal industries.

    It was interesting about the sports people, and may or not be believable.

  • Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain, researcher says
    1. Look at your own policies and how they were shaped and why they were instituted. Or what happened to the world's economy when the US economy was in trouble. You don't have to like it. I don't like it. Ignoring facts doesn't change them.

    2. Perhaps you might look into the origin of that spelling, or what Hitler's policies regarding certain races were modeled after.

  • Undecided voter focus group disappointed in Biden's debate performance
  • He may or not be in that situation, but if he is, I don't think anyone will tell us, anytime soon.

    Yes, tfg was worse and would be worse still. The Democrats see the writing on the wall and are not getting it together rapidly or "radically" enough. I'm aware that's not a popular opinion, but it's what I see, regardless of if everyone not for the other guy gets on board or not.

  • Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain, researcher says
  • Welcome to amerikka. What I mean is, the allied nations had a choice, and made it after WW2. Europe went one way, the USA another. We have exported* our "freedoms" to you. We have shown our true hand,* at home and abroad. Ball is in your court. I'd say now is your defining moment. Choose wisely, you are approaching the event horizon.

    • Edited for autocorrect
  • I just wanted the cheap pizza
  • Eh, the body has been dead, this is just "giving up the ghost." Don't shoot the messenger. It is what it is.

    Now we have a choice: focus on identity issues, or do what is right for everyone. Good luck, world.

  • Undecided voter focus group disappointed in Biden's debate performance
  • After Reagan left office, we learned he had Alzheimer's, and Nancy was governing from the shadows. It didn't come out* until years after he died. 🤷‍♀️ I don't think he's well, and I thought it's obvious, but I guess people believe what they want to believe. That applies to me, too.

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