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teach1st

(5,966 posts)
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:31 PM Feb 2024

After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers

After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers
WLRN (South Florida), February 29, 2024

On extremely hot days, many outdoor workers in Florida often lack access to three basic accommodations: water, shade and rest breaks.

“The majority of our field workers suffer from heat stress,” Teresa Choc, an organizer with the Farmworker Association of Florida in Homestead, explained. “We’re the ones who put the food on everyone’s table, and it’s through arduous work in the sun.
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But Republicans in the state legislature are trying to stop cities and counties from adopting local workplace heat standards.
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If passed, not only would the legislation make all local heat protection measures "void and prohibited" — it would also delay the state’s authority to enact its own heat standards until 2028.


https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-02-29/heat-protections-workers-florida-miami-legislation-hb433

See also hatrack's post in the Environment & Energy forum from three days ago.
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After record summer, Florida looks set to ban local heat protections for workers (Original Post) teach1st Feb 2024 OP
OSHA? Sue DeSantis out of office. hlthe2b Feb 2024 #1
For what? mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2024 #8
They should have decades ago. hlthe2b Feb 2024 #9
These people are cruel and inhumane. Deuxcents Feb 2024 #2
That's a plus for most of them. lpbk2713 Feb 2024 #5
Now this has freedumb written all over it. Marcus IM Feb 2024 #3
With this BigMin28 Feb 2024 #4
Republicans dig shitholes wherever they govern. n/t The Unmitigated Gall Feb 2024 #6
Of course, the bottom line is that most of the people affected aren't white. Biophilic Feb 2024 #7
I do not understand cruelty. 3catwoman3 Feb 2024 #10
Um, OSHA, anyone??? CaptainTruth Feb 2024 #11
 

Marcus IM

(3,001 posts)
3. Now this has freedumb written all over it.
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:36 PM
Feb 2024

Now, let's bring in more Cuban and Venezuelan right-wingers to vote republican. Yeah. That's the ticket!

BigMin28

(1,458 posts)
4. With this
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:43 PM
Feb 2024

And a law working its way through the state legislature taking away lunch breaks from workers, when will people wake up? Last year here in Texas, they said employers aren't required to give water breaks to those that work outside. If you have ever experienced a Texas summer, you can't help but see the cruelty of these people.

Biophilic

(4,736 posts)
7. Of course, the bottom line is that most of the people affected aren't white.
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 02:47 PM
Feb 2024

Who would have ever guessed.

3catwoman3

(25,430 posts)
10. I do not understand cruelty.
Thu Feb 29, 2024, 04:10 PM
Feb 2024

I cry over ASPCA commercials. I p33ut spiders outside when I find them. I pick up worms off the sidewalk and driveway after rainstorms and put them in the grass so they won't dry out and die.

To intentionally cause suffering, and relish doing so, is subhuman.

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