Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters
a year ago by Lee Duna to c/workreform
Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.
The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect Aug. 28.
I welcome them to try it. We'll all race across life's finish line, together.
"I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees," as the saying goes...
Certainly does beg the question though, as to what happened to all those 'dont tread on me!', 'muh 2nd mendment' people who seem intensely concerned about their right to bear arms against an unlawful oppressor conveniently right up until one shows up...
That's the brilliant part.
They were led to believe the government could go after them physically, and that's what they're looking for, while they steal their healthcare and education and infrastructure, while deporting the cheap labor they were exploiting in their farms and depriving them of income.
They're tightly watching their front door, ready to shoot the first person getting close to it, while the rest of their house is being robbed blind...
Indeed. I'm wondering as well. But I come from new York city, where the saying was always: talk is cheap.
it is becoming more and more obvious to those who couldn’t see before that you cannot vote fascism out of power. we are rapidly approaching a countrywide breaking point. i don’t know from which side or what angle, but there is a lot of anger and only one group (anyone Left of Republicans) has the moral high ground. we are not going to demonstrate or talk our way out of the pockets of the oligarchy. if not now, when? when will it be time?
This isn't even the first time they've overriden voter choice.
Hell, it's not even the twentieth time.
What kind of stupid-ass system of government allows an executive to repeal laws?
What sort of ass-backwards State allows direct Voter-approved laws to be repealed by the politicians. The purpose of having that process is to deal with situations where the State can't get their shit together.
A state that is captured by the voting power of land over individuals. Missouri state government is completely beholden to the hoosiers in the boonies because there are more rural counties even though there are far less rural people. And then secondarily the rural people are propped up by dumbass McBee-wannabe suburbanites that vote conservative and wear cowboy boots recreationally.
Governor HeeHaw 2.0 is one such dumbass suburbanite who went to Chaminade in St. Louis, grew up rich, and now cosplays as the hoosier’s champion
Missouri at large is far more purple than the state government allows it to appear. It was purple for a long time and its still purple today, but a purple state that gives more voting power to land than people ultimately ends up red. Just look at our federal electoral system, its the same thing
Hear hear!
For those who don't know: Hoosier is Missouri slang for trashy rural dipshits.
Sorry Indiana.
And for Missourians who dont know, we call trashy rural dipshits hoosiers because the original trashy rural dipshits in MO came from Indiana.
Sorry again Indiana. Although modern Indiana is much better now after offloading your trashy dipshits on us back in the day
My parents live in Indiana, and I mostly grew up in either Indiana or California. I'm not so sure the state is better off even after offloading some of the racist hillbillies from around those parts.
They'll probably VOTE him Out next Time because Republicans are KNOWN to VOTE OUT Representatives that Screw them Over!
-LoL!
"It's ok if you fuck me in the ass as long as you fuck the brown guys a little harder." --Modern Republican Voters
Ballot actions do nothing if Regressives are elected.
Ballot actions AND Progressives!
Either way, it’s incrementalism. And as we’ve seen, any rights won will be clawed back.
The only good fix is revolution. The master’s tools will not destroy the master’s house.
I dunno man, the master's sledgehammer and sickle can pretty effectively destroy both the house and the master respectively.
Those are our tools. The master does not labor.
I would have thought that the obvious "hammer and sickle" reference would have made it obvious that I was joking.
You should leave. It's not going to get any better and they will just use your income to pay for their shenanigans.
This but America
Only in public. Their only true platform is to get money and make money for billionaires.
Much of the MAGA platform is empowering and enabling pedophiles….there fixed it for you
stopping
Im not sure that word means what you think it means.
What a fucking clown. This motherfucker needs to be removed from his god damn office after denying from the people democracy like this.
These deadbeat politicians are sowing political upheaval, and sooner or later, the people will inflict their rage on the people that have caused their lives to go to shit.
No, they won't. They'll inflict on the people they're told did this to him because they can't figure out who's really responsible.
Sadly, you're right.
Removed in a bag.
Our state is filled with a bunch of fuckwits who keep voting for progressive policies across the whole state, yet can't vote for anyone that doesn't have an (R) next to their name and are consistently shocked when their ballot measures get pulled.
Sounds like the next ballot action should be any elected official who offers up legislation to repeal a ballot initiative immediately loses their seat without any further action needed. If enacted by a ballot only a ballot should be able to repeal it and anyone who suggests otherwise doesn't belong in office.
Feel like the ballot has been tossed in the trash, and its time for missouri to go on to plan b.
Yet the voters will still keep voting for the Jesus party
"we want this" "no you don't"
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Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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@lemmy.world
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
go to feed...
This governor should be removed from fucking office now, and I don't mean a recall or impeachment. If the voters vote a law in the fucking governor shouldn't be able to remove said law. Only fucking voters should get to do that
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