House Bill 2127 pre-empts municipalities from enacting legislation in eight areas—with predictable results.
I am vehemently opposed to this law. It is useless, dangerous bullshit, done only for political signalling.
However, this artcle is bullshit too, having absolutely nothing to do with the law, except for the headline.
Local ordinances mandating water breaks for workers outdoors, passed in Austin in 2010 and in Dallas in 2015, have contributed to a significant decrease in annual heat-related illnesses and heat deaths. Since 2011, annual workplace heat-related illness numbers have dropped by 78 percent, while workplace heat-related deaths have cut in half. San Antonio considered a similar ordinance before the Death Star zapped its chances.
In addition to overturning existing local ordinances, House Bill 2127 bans cities and counties from passing new ones at the risk of legal action. These include any bills concerning agriculture, finance, insurance, labor, natural resources, property, business and commerce, and occupations.
[…] come September 1, those water breaks in Dallas and Austin will no longer be mandatory. Some workers fear that bosses seeking to increase production will eliminate existing breaks.
Trying to understand how this has nothing to do with it?
OK, they described the content and background of the law. But the article is about 11 deaths that are utterly unrelated to that law. And the headline is a salacious attempt to link the two.
Do you actually disagree with my point, or is this just useless pedantry?
How can people be dying now to something that comes into effect on September 1st?
What a HORRIFICALLY misleading headline.
A) Water breaks aren’t banned, just no longer mandated under some local ordinances. Still mandated by federal law, in theory.
B) The law hasn’t even gone into effect yet.
C) The deaths referred to are not from lack of water. It even specifically suggests lack of air conditioning.
That was faster than I expected. Especially since the law isn’t even in effect yet. Sept 1 according to Texas Tribune.
Remember, the cruelty is the point.
In what way? To have consistent laws for sub contractors across the state? I promise you, on site, when people are thirsty they get their drink of water.
Hear that everyone? This guy promised! Nothing to worry about, then.
Let me guess, you saw a headline, and have absolutely 0 knowledge of the industry, but you’re acting as if you’ve worked construction in 100 degree weather?
Once you talk to people who have done that, or better yet, done it yourself, you’d understand that we don’t care about local policies ‘mandating’ water breaks. We drink water perpetually throughout the day.
Edit: Lol downvotes from people who have never worked construction in 100 degree weather telling someone who has how we drink water. I was hoping this wouldn’t just be another r/politics sub, but it appears I was wrong.
Once you talk to people who have done that, or better yet, done it yourself, you’d understand that we don’t care about local policies ‘mandating’ water breaks. We drink water perpetually throughout the day.
Then what is your grievance with requiring it?
They are getting what they voted for. Seems to me that construction workers are just the type that would either be gun-ho Republicans or be totally tuned out of politics altogether.
So ultimately, they are getting what they deserve - anti-worker/anti-common sense policies.
Does Lemmy have a /LeopardAteMyFace sub? If so, this deserves to be posted there.
Seems to you? As it happens, that is not the case. According to this website they polled at 45.3 Democrat vs. 54.7 Republican. The GOP always likes to show guys wearing hardhats as conservatives but that is just PR bullshit.
54.7 > 45.3 so seems like their PR bullshit is accurate, for once.
Construction workers are getting what they deserve by dying of heatstroke? Really? I get not liking republicans and thinking a section of the working class votes against their own interests, but I don’t think that means they deserve to die.
Aim your ire at the people who actually made this bill happen not the the poor guys who are suffering because of it.
Votes matter. Votes have consequences.
They are voting for and supporting these right-wing clowns. So YES, they are getting exactly what they deserve.
This is no different than Republican women supporting the GOP and then being SHOCKED that the people they voted in are now limiting their access to abortions.
This is a horrific attitude to have for policies that affect all the people who are disenfranchised by gerrymandering and mass incarceration.
Then people should start getting angry. But it seems like no matter what laws these fascist fucks pass, no matter what draconian rules they enact, no matter what bullshit they do and say, people just sit back and take it. I am sick and tired of it.
What do you expect people to do? Lose their precarious housing because they took time off work to march in protest? Do you want us to stop covering these violations in the news because you’re tired of seeing it?
News reports about the truth exist to MAKE people angry. I want to see and hear about this stuff until the day it stops happening. Some of those who voted because they believed lies can only be swayed by seeing the true consequences.
Don’t blame the powerless. Raise our voices on their behalf. Which is exactly what news reports like this are doing.
You can cut it with the “woe-is-me, I am powerless” nonsense. The victim mentality that far too many on the Left have embraced only hurts issues, not help.
“THE LEFT”
Aaaaand…there it is. Cool story, bro.
Acknowledging that power strata exist in a society and that some of us should use our positions to help those less fortunate than us is not a weakness, you dimwit.
He doesn’t care if people die. He doesn’t care. At all.
This is what blows me away. If I did anything that could be linked to any kind of serious harm to someone, I would be fucking devastated.
It’s almost like these people are aliens when you look at their ability to just not give a single fuck about anyone
He’s a sociopath. He has no concept of empathy. All he cares about is his own power. Which is true of a lot of politicians, sadly. And yes, it is a very alien way of looking at the world, but a disturbing number of people are sociopaths.
When individual humans reach a certain level of power and wealth they tend to self isolate. This is a natural response, they need to start to see themselves as different and set apart from regular humans, because the things they need to do to keep growing their wealth and power start to become increasingly inhuman.
Here’s a link to an article full of the insane things billionaires have tried to justify, in their own little books, and these are just the things they are happy to share. The complete disconnect from their reality and ours becomes terribly pain to see once you read their thoughts.
