Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce
Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.
“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.
So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”
At the risk of repeating myself from another reply to a similar comment you made elsewhere in this thread:
The Democratic party, as a whole, is as you say. That said, there absolutely are progressive candidates at the state and local levels.
Of course! With state politics, even third parties have had some success (socialist, green, libertarian, et al).
The Fed leadership of the party will always tolerate low-level activists, we even have one congressperson who is pro-labor.
She agrees with me; Democrats abandoned labor long ago.