Protesters took to the streets to march against HB433
Construction and farmworkers in Florida protested against a newly enacted law that prevents cities and counties from implementing their own protections against extreme heat. The law disproportionately impacts Latino workers, who make up a large proportion of outdoor workers.
Imagine how quickly legislators would enact change if the trades unions to include HVAC joined the protest and began striking. You can only sit inside of a 90f building for so long.
One : they need to do that
Two : the legislators would pass a law forcing them back to work.
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
cool, I’m residental now.
In the case of my old call center, that’s about 3 months.
I suspect that they, like the illegal immigrant laborers, will be better off just leaving Florida.
Ikr, surely “don’t be excessively cruel to the piece-workers who make the agricultural industry price competitive” would be a better strategy? Is this going to end up like brexit where next minute you’ve got a load of farmers wanting a bailout cos it turns out noone wants to be paid less than minimum wage to get heat stroke picking fruit or whatever?
…and what party do Latinos in Florida vote for?
They mostly vote Republican, so they like working in unsafe conditions.
Why would they vote republican?
I’m not doubting you, just curious as to how they are targeted for votes. Like they realise the party hates them right.
Many of them are Cuban and are either from the generation of or descended from people who fled Cuba when Batista was ousted, so they’ve clung onto the Republican party for being “anti-Communist.” And some of those people are rich and control Spanish-language media in the area, which converts others. Not to mention just good old word-of-mouth.
Then, on top of that, there are the inroads evangelical Christians are making with Latinos.