cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34329504
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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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.”
‘It’s not really gerrymandering because it only added one Republican district’ is both asinine and blind to history. Maybe if this was the first time Missouri had ever been gerrymandered that would matter.
But whatever, don’t let me get in the way of the “fuck off and die” attitude so many here have towards anyone living in a red state. Location is now guilt.
Since you appear to have conveniently missed the more important part of my previous comment, I will repeat it here.