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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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.”
Oh dumbass Missourians.
Just like in 2018 when they voted against right to work and on the same ballot voted in a Republican majority and the Republican majority tried to implement right to work as the first item on the new session.
Never learn Missourians, never learn.
NOTE: Not a literal gut punch.
Thank you for your attention to this grammar.
Sorry, but get fukt red Missourians. I hope they feel as much pain and anguish as possible, because it’s the only way they learn, if it personally negatively affects them. And even then they sometimes still don’t learn (see: COVID). I feel terrible for the democrat voters that get screwed anyway.
Ironically they will still vote Republican. They will somehow blame Hillary for it.
Trump 28!
(/s)
It wont stop them from voting republican.
The thing that is crazy to me about all of this even when midterms come up people will still go out and support the GOP. There is no bottom floor to hit for them.
This administration is definitely trying to kill off the poor
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Wonder how many hourly workers voted for Trump.
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They did. I think some of them regretted now. last time I went to a Walmart and workers openingly complained about Trump.
Trump is not on their side. Biden was
The irony is that in the passing of sick leave and the repeal of it Missourians still got what they voted for. No sympathy.
When you vote for GOPers, this is what happens
You voted for this, no take backs!
If something is voted in, how can ‘lawmakers’ just choose to ignore it ?
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Thanks, Citizens United.
Have you not been paying attention for the last 8 years?
They’ll forget about it when the petrolum they’re dumping in the water hits the memory centers of their brains
This is why progressives win when they’re not being undermined by corporate Democrats. Average people, including Republican voters, support this stuff by large majorities most of the time, even in the face of right wing propaganda.
I don’t think they deserve this because they vote Republican. I think they deserve paid sick leave and a higher wage. We should look inward and ask how we’re failing them if they’re voting traitor lunatic.
Both sides same, right? Right?
They’re not the same, but both are anti-labor and pro-corporate. Neither provides any benefits for workers, Rs have always been awful and Ds have ignored labor for decades.
Poland has better worker benefits than the USA… we’ve been surpassed by Japan, Australia, Korea, Canada, most of Europe and now even eastern Europe. Sad.
Exhibit A.
“Both sides are anti-labor” is not “both sides are the same”.
Some day it will sink in, and boy will you feel dumb
Tell me more exhibit A.
Me… “cars and trucks are both vehicles”
You… “So they’re the same.”
Me… “No.”
Me… “horses and tigers are both quadrupeds”
You… “So they’re the same!!”
Me… “No.”
Me… “both of our parties are beholden to Super PACs”
You… “So they must be the same!”
Me… “No.”
Please, continue.
Me “cacti and junipers are both plants”
You “So they’re the same!”
Me “No…”
Missouri is a 3rd World MAGAt filled Red Oblast. Zero sympathy.
