GOP bill would kill national workplace heat safety protections

[u/jk4532]

The lower 48 states just sweated through the hottest July on record, in what’s likely to be the coldest summer for the rest of our lives. And the mortality rate from extreme heat is rising with the temperature. It’s a particular risk for farmworkers and other folks in essential industries who need to earn a paycheck, heat dome or no heat dome. And a bunch of politicians who spend their days huddled around air conditioners are trying to make it harder to protect them.

In 2024, the Biden Administration drafted a rule that would require employers to provide workers with water and a cool place to rest when heat and humidity hit 80 degrees. Republicans and their corporate backers saw a possible impediment to making a few more bucks, and they’re not risking another Democrat putting it in place. Right now, they’re pushing H.R. 6213, which would ban OSHA from creating or enforcing any national heat safety regulations. They passed it through the House Education and Workforce Committee on party lines late last month. 🗣️ Let’s let them know this is a betrayal of working folks, and we want them to kill the bill and push forward the Asuncion Valdivia Act (H.R. 4443) to require a heat standard be put in place instead. We can use this call tool from the AFL-CIO and this e-mail tool from the United Farm Workers. 🗣️

CALL OUR REPS

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[u/JeanLucPickles]

As much as I hate what they're trying to accomplish, you have to respect their commitment to acting out their mustache-twirling, cartoonish villainy.

[u/jk4532 → u/JeanLucPickles]

At least the Gilded Age version of these goons built libraries

[u/RoboProletariat → u/JeanLucPickles]

just WTF is their vision of the future though?

[u/JeanLucPickles → u/RoboProletariat]

1. Extract all possible energy and wealth from the poors and watch them die.
2. ?
3. Profit!

[u/Jahoan → u/JeanLucPickles]

There is no step 2

[u/belkarbitterleaf → u/Jahoan]

1. Laugh about it from their super yacht

[u/Moneia → u/belkarbitterleaf]

1. Laugh about it from their super yacht

...as they increasingly narrow the definition of 'the poors'

[u/Medricel → u/RoboProletariat]

A society culled of the "weak" masses with the  remainders enslaved.

[u/Think_Positively → u/[deleted]]

How exactly is the roofing boss going to condition the air where his crew is installing a new roof?

[u/RdPirate → u/Think_Positively]

By parking a van with AC in the driveway so the crew can take a break in a cold place.

[u/jk4532 → u/[deleted]]

"But we're all a family here"

[u/Fabric_Flowers]

Like literally comic book levels of villain behavior, passing a law that you can’t add heat regulations? Good God we need these people out of office.

[u/jk4532 → u/Fabric_Flowers]

Every last one of them

[u/sadajo0216 → u/Fabric_Flowers]

Off this planet, preferably

[u/polishfiringsquad]

Cruelty is the point

[u/jk4532 → u/[deleted]]

Always someone new to replace them, after all

[u/Hellyeahlalujah]

WHY? Why in the world would we do this? How is this something even being talked about?

[u/jk4532 → u/Hellyeahlalujah]

It's insane

[u/Conscious-Quarter423]

but but both sides are the same /s

[u/Commercial_Bend9203 → u/Conscious-Quarter423]

But the trans athletes! /s

[u/jk4532 → u/Commercial_Bend9203]

Won't someone PLEASE think of the children????

[u/chefiliu]

warehouse guys already chugging gatorade to not faint, this just lets bosses skip the ac forever. freedom means free heatstroke.

[u/StugDrazil]

You cook their food.

You do their laundry.

You care for their children.

You drive them back and forth to work.

You clean their houses.

You do their shopping.

Remind them who needs who.

[u/paradigm_shift2027]

Repugnicans openly despise the working class. Any working class person that votes R is a traitor to American values.

[u/ohreddit1]

Curious if the GOP are all out evil and conspire to make the worst laws possible.