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House Bill 2127, which takes effect on Sept. 1, will do away with local rules that require water breaks for construction workers. The cities of Austin and Dallas, for example, require 10-minute breaks every four hours. San Antonio officials had been considering a similar ordinance.

“We are human beings who need respect,” Martínez said. “We really need to be allowed to work without problems, without any barriers … Believe me, we are dying inside those buildings when they take away our water and our [break] time.”

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    1 year ago

    So how fucked up we want to make everything for the backbone-industry everyone is needing:

    US: Yes

    Seriously, I can’t even understand how people allow this to happen in your own country. It would be political suicide to try this in any place of Germany.

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      Individual votes don’t count nearly as much as corporate cash.

      This is the epitome of late stage capitalism in the US.

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        Your first sentence is absolutely accurate, but I think this specific case is more about sticking it to the libs in the cities that passed these laws, with the side benefit that most of these workers are minorities that the state reps don’t like.