Florida lawmakers moved forward with a GOP-backed bill that would weaken child labor protections for 16- and 17-year-olds in the state’s workforce, who the bill sponsor described as “youth workers” and “not children”
'This bill is not about children,' said Rep. Chaney. 'This bill is about 16- and 17-year-olds. These are youth workers that are driving automobiles. They are not children.'
"10–5 vote along party lines, with Democrats opposed" A supermajority of malfeasance... "The Republican-backed bill, fed to Rep. Linda Chaney by the right-wing Foundation for Government Accountability — a think tank that wrote the bill " ...so openly corrupt they sign their names to it.
Sure, why don’t we just go back to Dickens-era London?
Yep. Just like the GOP wanting to cut social security to cause an influx of workers who should be retiring and enjoying life in order to oversaturate the workforce they are doing the same with kids to undermine unions and give employees a cheap workforce.
Laying this FL court news story here as well re: trans youth ability to access healthcare. (Adult trans folks are currently unable to access care.) apnews.com/article/flor...
A Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the state's ban on trans health care for children is allowed to take effect.
They really do want to take us back to the 19th Century
But they bitch about trans people fucking Shm
You larn em to wrassle gators young or they never larn.
*grabs pitchfork* Who has the torches?
This is a real thing? More and more I see news from all over the world the more I feel like I’m reading an onion article!!! Or idiocracy happening before our eyes!!!
At what stage do we call them youth capital stock?