• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Florida is a right to work state, which means the state has the right to work you to death.

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        Wrong. Very wrong.

        They want you to think that so you don’t report them.

        They are obligated to provide a safe working environment- under federal law. That’s true for every single state and US territory.

        All “right to work” really means is that you get to quit at any time and they get to fire you at any time.

        The exception to that is in retaliation for complaining or reporting safety hazards (they also can’t fire you for being a protected class etc.)

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, he’s seriously an asshole. I just moved down to Miami from NJ, and even though it gets really hot and humid up there, it’s stupid hot down here. The humidity makes a massive difference. Today, it was 78 and about 55% humidity and a relatively low dew point, and it was comfortable. Yesterday, it was also 78, but like 80% humidity and high dew point, and it was sweltering. In my dance class, I was literally drenched in sweat even though the people that had been down here for a while weren’t.

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      It’s very rational when you are a Republican bigot and you know that basically all of those workers are poor and most of them minorities, many of whom are immigrants. Fucking over poor and brown people is the rational thing to do when you want a white ethnostate with chattel slavery.

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    1 year ago

    Florida saw some of the draconian measures Texas is enacting and said “Hold the phone, and my beer, I got this”.

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      1 year ago

      Well it ain’t “surviving in Florida” because that’s an oxymoron.

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    This is sadism, and a move in the class war.

    Ensuring workers don’t overheat is the more profitable thing to do, they are giving up some profit specifically to harm those in the working class that they hate.

    The state of course prevents one from defending oneself against such clear attacks. This is why the state (not Florida, the state) is the problem.