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‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave (www.theguardian.com)

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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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They’ve spent decades demonizing the left so thoroughly that any idea that they dislike and can associate with the left hey do so ad nauseam.

So any idea that would help those on the right just has to be called liberal and they’ll vote against it even if it hurts them too. It’s literally an unthinking knee-jerk hatred and reaction at this point. No thinking required.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Still. They vote for something and then their reps reverse it. I mean you would think something would seep through there.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're still assuming these people arent all literal cult members. We are in nazi germany fam, those people wouldn't vote for democrats even if they were thrown into the concentration camps. There's no amount of abuse they wont accept for the privilege of being a fascist.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately I agree here. I, like many I think, have wondered how nazi germany came to be and I really did not mean the musing to be fulfilled as some sort of wish to experience it personally but here we are.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There’s no amount of abuse they wont accept for the privilege of being a fascist.

Spot on. Seeing some of the people who previously relished in Trump's evil, eventually have their lives ruined by it, will be one of the few truly enjoyable things for me in the coming years.

[–] Azal@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

you would think

I live in Missouri. This is the first mistake you make when attempting to reason with these fucking idiots.