Yay… more bad news from the land of the free.
Children not only yearn for the mine, they yearn to work for free and starve.
How commendable! #PrettyPleaseDontJoinaUnion
What the fuck is wrong with republicans?
Their very existence.
How much time do you have?
It takes almost no time to say everything is wrong with these people, and
the American business model, health care model, pay model, uhhh, the American everything model is not only wrong, but deliberately cruel and evil, besides.
What a shithole
child workers
Failed state.
Someone is jealous from China !
Children work in china has been on decline of years
Ok Republican Party needs to be removed from everywhere. This is beyond.
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.
“The sheep want to jump in my mouth” Mr. Wolf claimed.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”
Ohhhh. Just harming young adults. Totally Clean conscience there
Give me a break
lmao no, this cant be real x3
“Give me a break” is probably what all the workers are saying.
Who the hell wants to work through lunch and not get a break? Who the hell thinks that’s more productive or better in any way?
No! We want to work more for less benefits!!! Let’s just skip nourishment and a brief rest, that won’t backfire at all. /s
The only reason I can see being, if they aren’t paid for the half hour, they might want to cut it and go home a half hour early.
Right? And what would end up happening is losing the break, but still having to work til the same end time. Ugh.
So anyway, I just want to check and see if anyone else noticed what’s going on here: to the extent that the comments are about specific policy (as opposed to generalized outrage at how cartoonishly evil the Republicans are), they’re about the “cutting lunch breaks for child workers” part.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if that part was added mostly as a distraction to make it easier to push the unemployment benefit and workers comp cuts through (e.g. by offering to ditch the lunch breaks part while keeping the other stuff and pretending it’s some kind of fair compromise, when what really should’ve happened is binning all of it).
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.
It’s just some greedy asshole who wants those 14 year olds to work a little harder and a little cheaper. Breaks cost money.
Next time read the article.
These guys just… wake up and think to themselves “what is the most comically evil cartoon villain thing I can do to hurt others today?”. Surreal.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.” — Matt Gaetz had a similar argument.
Young adults indeed. Let them vote then.
The orphan crushing machine doesn’t take a break today it seems.
I’ve known about the Orphan Crushing Machine for a while, but it takes news stories like this to make one take a step back and realize that there are people actively maintaining and upgrading the Orphan Crushing Machine. jfc. Who wakes up and says, “crushed orphans are vital to my business plans,” with no sense of irony?
Why are “children” working to begin with?
They yern for the smoothie king
Keep your damn smoothies! Give us back our mines!
Profit, you damned pinko bleeding heart commie!
/s
If you are under 18 then you are considered a “child” in labor terms. Different states have different laws about people under 18 and work eligibility. In Illinois, I was able to get a job at 15 with a work permit that my school had to sign and very strict rules about what I can and cannot do. They were allowed to pay me less than minimum wage as long as they followed those rules. I don’t think it’s wrong to let teens get jobs and start learning how the working world works and also make a bit of money for whatever they might use it on. But um… Maybe they deserve a lunch break?
Lol. Hard agree.
