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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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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.”

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[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

cant spell missouri, without misery.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Missouri is a 3rd World MAGAt filled Red Oblast. Zero sympathy.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

texas, missouri and other red states are technically russia, oligarch owned states.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Both sides same, right? Right?

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

"Both sides are anti-labor" is not "both sides are the same".

Some day it will sink in, and boy will you feel dumb

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago
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[-] prole 3 points 2 months ago

At the risk of repeating myself from another reply to a similar comment you made elsewhere in this thread:

The Democratic party, as a whole, is as you say. That said, there absolutely are progressive candidates at the state and local levels.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Of course! With state politics, even third parties have had some success (socialist, green, libertarian, et al).

The Fed leadership of the party will always tolerate low-level activists, we even have one congressperson who is pro-labor.

She agrees with me; Democrats abandoned labor long ago.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

They'll forget about it when the petrolum they're dumping in the water hits the memory centers of their brains

[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You keep voting them in though. Enjoy!!!

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