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So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and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.”
Even on a day where Missourians sort of overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, Josh Hawley and Governor Kehoe, they also overwhelmingly voted for an increase in paid sick days.
So they elected candidates who historically have opposed labor protections and government benefits, and then expected to get paid sick leave?
Fox news tells them the GOP are pro-worker and the Democrats actually hate America and workers.
It’s infuriating :/
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for three decades straight and I’m the average Republican.
Yeah but I pray to the photo of Reagan on my wall every night that if I keep my mouth open and look up then the wealth will
pisstrickle down from the rich as they get richer
The GOP are
proanti-worker and the Democratstic leadership actually hateAmerica andworkersThere we go, now it makes sense :)
Sounds like a lot of people got exactly what they deserve
I’m a school bus driver and our shop is union (Teamsters). My coworkers rabidly support our union, but are opposed to all other unions (except police unions of course) including even the teachers’ union in our district. They’re also mostly MAGA. They’re just so fucking clueless about their own self-interest, leaving aside their utter selfishness. Our dispatcher is a lesbian who proudly talks about her wife, and she’s the most rabid trumper of them all. I had one painful conversation with her where she insisted that it’s the GOP that brought about same-sex marriage.
she insisted that it’s the GOP that brought about same-sex marriage
Well she’s about to find out the hard way how wrong this is as the Supreme Court is about to (probably) overturn Obergefell
And thomas will gleefully vote to overturn obergfell
KC here… I’m frankly fucking AMAZED we’re still not a “Right to Work” state… for how quickly everything else has been overturned blatantly I’m amazed Gov Heehaw didn’t find a way to gut it on the way out.
It’s absolutely maddening, and it’s been happening for at least 30 years
I was talking with my brother about how republican state congresses tend to overturn voter initiatives. I don’t understand this cuck attitude that keeps so many people voting for them.
Because the Democrats aren’t running on those platforms, because they are also opposed to thise initiatives. The Democrats COULD run on a platform of guaranteed sick leave, mandatory holiday pay, rent control, and other wildly popular pro-worker policies, but they don’t ecause they want to “appeal to moderates” or some other dumb bullshit. So you end up with a useless Democratic party in states like Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin who refuse to help people because they don’t want Republicans to call them socialists. Then come election time they get caleld socialists anyway who support " illegals stealing jobs and giving abortions" or whatever and and shocked Pikachu when they keep losing elections. Until Democrats start openly campaigning on things that immediately benefit workers, they will continue to lose ground to the Republicans.
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.
NOTE: Not a literal gut punch.
Thank you for your attention to this grammar.
“Literal” has been used metaphorically for emphasis by better writers than you, centuries before you were born. Shut up.
I think “veritable” is more fitting.
“Have the day you voted for”, leopards etc.
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
But the republicans are in power and have campaigned for years on a clear platform to support capitalists and not the working class.
In this instance, they voted for paid sick leave. Yeah, these people should have the day they voted for.
They also elected a legislature and governor that stabbed them in the back.
This is what happened in Ontario. Our premier took away mandatory paid sick days right away and guess what happened next? …Ontario voted for him again 4 years later with a majority. And then they did it again earlier this year.
Never underestimate how stupid the voter base is.
It’s because they do these things strategically. They passed these corporate centric laws that hurt voters in the years when there’s no election. Then they spend the rest of the time pumping social issues that their conservative minded voters care about like abortion and immigration totally overshadowing the thing they did to screw over the voters. And the, now conservative controlled, media helps them to cover it all up.
