Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce
Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.
“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.
So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”
“Have the day you voted for”, leopards etc.
In this instance, they voted for paid sick leave. Yeah, these people should have the day they voted for.
They also elected a legislature and governor that stabbed them in the back.
Absolutely.
Here, you dropped this: “predictably”
Uhh, that’s not all they voted for.
But the republicans are in power and have campaigned for years on a clear platform to support capitalists and not the working class.
I understood 2 of those phrases but the rest sounds like commie bullshit.
Opinion poll numbers aren’t the same as election votes
It wasn’t an opinion poll, it was a ballot initiative that voters voted on in an election. Then their representatives that they also voted for turned around and repealed it.
https://labor.mo.gov/dls/proposition-a-paid-sick-time-benefits-faqs
Happened in Nebraska too. Voters passed legal weed but the GOP isn’t going to follow through and is actually trying to outlaw the farm bill shit in the process.
There’s no reason for them to actually legislate or govern since they’ll still get voted in, all they need is the R and they’re set. World’s easiest job.
Should be illegal. Not like it would stop them but still.
It wasn’t an opinion poll, it was a referendum vote that should have had binding legal effect but the Republican lawmakers and judges in the state made up a few bullshit legal loopholes and just made it go away
That is correct, which is why your comment about it is pointless.
In this dude’s defense, no where does it mention him being a Republican or supporting Republican politicians. It does say:
So I don’t think this is a leopards eating face scenario.
I don’t think it necessarily needs the victim to have voted for them - it’s more about the majority supporting the referendum and also the incompatible representatives. The LEPF party were elected and are doing what they do.