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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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.”
Voted for Republicans to hurt minorities and voted for sick leave. The Republicans got in and are trying to hurt minorities and them.
There was no other reason to vote for Republicans other than to hurt minorities. 58% was the number of voters for Trump.
So the economic policy was to increase tarrifs to increase costs on their purchases, and make it to be harder to sell their products.
Missouri’s main exports are machines going to East Asia and Soybeans.
The soybean industry got fucked by tariffs last time and tarrifs on Eastern Asia were what Trump ran on so it all but guaranteed issues selling machines there.
So they weren’t voting him in for economic reasons. They voted him in to hurt minorities.