There are far less teenagers then migrants. Maybe those businesses should move away from exploitation altogether.
Stop bringing up facts and figures, I have wordly experience!
-The average conservative voter
Voters? I have no qaulm with voters, I hate that how the elected officials act!
I have no qaulm with voters, I hate that how the elected officials act!
do you not see a connection there?
They act that way, because they know that their voters will still reelect them.
So slaves sorry, prisoners have to pick up the slack.
Remember, the Constitution allows slavery! Plus, it only bans punishments that are cruel and unusual - punishments that are just cruel or just unusual are fine!
Oh yeah, those too, they are definitely next in line.
I did corn detasseling for 2-half days (we got rained out on day 1) back when I was 12. I imagine those migrants were much more capable and tolerant of the bs than I was. -I remember the humidity in the fields, the mud, and the desire to vomit.
newsweek is a conspiracy peddling right-wing rag, please stop driving traffic to them
No. If people stopped posting from every source someone found objectionable there would be zero content on Lemmy.
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had “taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders” since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine’s elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer’s opinion section and podcast.
Newsweek in particular is vile and horrible, and you are driving traffic to them. That there are other news sites with problems is whataboutism, it doesn’t address that this problem.
Here’s an easy alternative: https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-bill-migrant-workers
Here, just to spite the fash reader source jacketing you.
It’s odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you’ve never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.
I don’t know their past, or their politics, but they are right. Newsweek should be avoided when possible.
The bill would have permitted 16- and 17-year-olds to work overnight on school days and work longer than an eight-hour day before a school day. Some 14- and 15-year-olds would also have been allowed to work those hours.
While sane and modern countries use this time to educate children and ensure they don’t need to work graveyard shifts during high school even go so far as funding their higher education so they can become highly-functional and productive tax-paying members of society, America begins its foray into bringing back child labor to backfill some of the most grueling and thankless jobs in the country.
Great fucking job you fucks
It’s not about backfilling the jobs, as much as it is about indoctrination into the slave work force and destroying their academic education.
I don’t think they’re planning on anyone growing up to pay taxes. They wanna make their cash today.
well… isn’t this the same crowd that wants to get rid of the IRS?
Yep. “Now that you don’t pay taxes, your boss can pay you less and you’ll still have higher net pay.”
It’s all for the oligarchs. They don’t give a shit about the people.
I don’t know why they bother. Unemployment is probably going to be rampant by this time next year. No need to work kids to death when they can just starve them.
We did this already, why must we repeat the worst parts of history?
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
The bill have allowed 16 year olds to work 8 hours over night with no lunch/meal break while also attending school during the day. It’s slave labor.
Isn’t his state the same one that removed worker’s protections from heat, like mandatory water and cooling breaks for outdoor workers? Or was that Texas? Fuck both him and Abbot in the temple with a crowbar, either way… Fucking ghouls.
Yeah, FL not just removed it, they stated no local areas could implement their own and that contractors were banned from implementing anything of the sort for their employees. Not sure if anyone has checked on hospitalization/ death from heart exhaustion or heat stroke since that was signed in to law.
Who bans employers from protecting their workers?! Seriously!
that was texas, florida would do this eventually.
Lol! Good luck getting teenagers to work those kinds of jobs in the 1st place. But expecting them to work overnight, then go to school…without any meal breaks?
LMFAO!! Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea? Unless they’re planning on forcing kids to do this, it will never happen.
Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people’s) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn’t worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.
He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.
Uugh. That’s so dumb. Insurance companies simply wouldn’t cover them…but that wouldn’t stop those companies from employing children. Especially if conservatives are dismantling work place safety regulations at the same time.
…until this band of demons gets the likes of donvict to start threatening them if they don’t comply with the very worst polices the qons can dream up.
I think they’re expecting an influx of dropping out to enter the
wage slave marketwork force. So for them, it’s hitting a triple - less expenses to education, a less educated populace, and a locked-in-for-life service industry workforce.
Republicans fucking suck
Worse. They actually vote.
I do believe Mr. DeSantis should put his money where his mouth is, and have all of HIS children work these shifts, thus showing effective leadership with a prime example of how parents should treat their children.
I mean, if it’s a good policy, he wouldn’t mind making his children work, right?
Rules for thee, not for me…
I do believe Mr. DeSatan should put a loaded gun where his mouth is.
A season in the fields would do his kids good.
His are different and special 💰. Yours on the other hand…
Sure, lets hire children for everything, I mean everything:
“I’m bored, my mom grounded me”
“Hey wanna play a game?”
“What?”
“Lets, turn the keys, see what happens.”
“…”
“C’mon pussy. There’s nothing fun at home anyways, you’re grounded. This is gonna be fun!”
“Um… fine…”
“Alright, 3… 2… 1…”
keys are turned simultaneously
🚀🌎🌏💥 (Nuclear ICBM Launched)
Oh word? Maybe try replacing republicans with humans.
That would require morals and an actual functioning vertebrae.
“No sixteen year olds want to work these days”
I understand you are joking, but can never pass up an opening to post this:
Not Florida but:
Rotschy, which routinely hired teenage workers amid recent labor shortages, violated the law when supervisors assigned tasks known to be dangerous and prohibited for minors to perform.
‘Beyond failure’ – Washington teen loses legs at school-based work program
Not the onion.
What in the 1600
