Biff_Poindexter
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Texas governor signs bill rescinding water breaks as deadly heat grips state
Measure will nullify local ordinances that provide workers protection from devastating, triple-digit temperatures
www.theguardian.com
"Amid a dangerous heatwave that has brought blistering temperatures across Texas, the state’s governor signed a law this week eliminating local rules requiring water breaks for workers. The measure, which will take effect later this year, will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin and Dallas that mandate 10-minute breaks for construction workers every four hours. It also prevents any other local governments from passing similar worker protections. ust days after Greg Abbott, the governor, ratified the law, officials said a 35-year-old utility lineman working to restore power in Marshall, Texas, died after experiencing symptoms of heat illness.
“Banning required rest breaks for construction workers in the Texas heat is deadly.” wrote the Texas branch of the AFL-CIO union. Six out of every 10 construction workers in Texas are Latino, Hispanic workers made up a third of all worker heat deaths since 2010, according to an NPR/Columbia study. Still, the Republican lawmakers pushing the new law have said it eliminates a “hodgepodge of onerous and burdensome regulations” that Texas businesses face."
I would assume forcing employers to give their workers 10 minute water breaks, every four hours is probably the greatest manifestation of Communist-Marxist government oppression in at least the last 50 or more years...probably not since the creation of the 40-hr work week has there been a more anti-American, anti-worker regulation put in place. Furthermore, wetbacks, especially the darker illegal looking ones are better suited to deal with the heat, with minimal amount of water breaks...So why do we need big government to force businesses to make it easier on these illegals? If more of them die, maybe that is a good thing...it means less of them will be here, raping and murdering our citizens...and maybe more of them will go back to where they came from....I for one would have a lot more sympathy towards improving working conditions for construction workers if so many of them were not wetbacks and other people I don't empathize with.
However, the question needs to be asked....are water breaks communist? I am not saying all water breaks are communist, but employers should be free to mandate water breaks however they see fit...if an employer refuses to give their employees a fair amount of break time; then those workers should organize, I mean, they should just quit and find an employer who will give them water breaks...this isn't something that we need to regulate on businesses...the free market will do what is right as it has always done...How do you think we have OSHA laws?