Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart
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Senate Bill 918 would have relaxed restrictions on working hours for Florida teenagers.
  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    23 days ago

    Florida

    Uh oh…

    Plan to replace migrant workers

    Ah that’s entire expected. :'(

    with children

    THE FUCK?!

    What the fuck is wrong with people in Florida. How do people own guns and let these deranged lunatics in suits parade around for even a single day?!

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      321·
      23 days ago

      We’ve been sacrificing schoolchildren to preserve gun owner rights this whole century

    • butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      22 days ago

      Remember, they’re only pro gun for themselves. Those of us who oppose them and have guns get that shit taken away on some flimsy excuse if we do anything.

    • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      Watching US politics is like watching a rich jerk in a suit and bowler hat walk into a clown restaurant, loudly berate the staff, order a pie with lots and lots of cream on top, then he eats the pie and leaves. I was expecting something different, and I’m a little disappointed.

  • Shawdow194@fedia.io
    62·
    22 days ago

    The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.

    “It would also have scrapped required 30-minute meal breaks…”

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    531·
    22 days ago

    Supporters of the measure included Moms for Liberty

    so they wanted to “save children” so they can work in factories for fifteen hours a day.

    • booly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      How you gonna keep them down on the farm factory (after they’ve seen Paris a school library stocked with books)?

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    22 days ago

    Of course they want child labor. Who else could they get to replace a silent population of workers who are unempowered to fight against abuse?

  • ceenote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    22 days ago

    Republican state Senator Jay Collins, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure was about parental rights: “We should let them say what’s best for their kids at 16- to 17-year-olds, that’s what we’re saying by this.”

    What complete and utter horseshit. It’s already legal for them to work more as long as they have parental permission. This bill is about helping companies to normalize exploiting underpaid teenagers by removing the extra steps of actually giving the parent their say.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    21 days ago

    “We should let them say what’s best for their kids at 16- to 17-year-olds, that’s what we’re saying by this.”

    Except if it is about what to read or naked nipples.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    15·
    22 days ago

    The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.

    …

    Governor Ron DeSantis said during a panel discussion in March: “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when, you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff? … What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”

    Mmhmm, so you used to work overnight during a school day?