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[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements
(www.texastribune.org)
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The law is a ten minute break every four hours?? That’s fucking bullshit already!
Where I live it 15 minutes after 2.5 hours if you’re only working 5 hours or less. 2 hours if you’re you’re there all day, but you get your 30-minute lunch after 4 hours, then a fifteen minute break every two hours worked after that.
I worked at a concrete yard in Ontario, Canada for a few years. Breaks due to heat were given based on temps. At one point it was 15 minute breaks with Gatorade provided - every hour.
Americans desperately need to reestablish the proper hierarchy of power.
You have removed child labor laws across a number of states, human rights are basically done, labor has returned to 19th century standards.
So much blood was lost for nothing.
I see the same rhetoric moving in to Canada. It’s disheartening to see our closest friends and allies suffer while the disease causing it tries to creep it’s way in here.
vaguely gestures at communist revolution
Americans: But my freedumbs!
I don't think communism is the solution, but I'm upvoting because I miss the vaguely gestures meme
Fuck communism. Socialism is fine. You don't need the government owning every single business and paying people out income equalization and food vouchers. Put the power back in the people's hands.
Communism is the power in the people's hands. Classless, stateless society in which the means of production are controlled by the workers and used for the benefit of the many.
That's not communism. Communism is when the state owns the means of production. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production.
Socialism does broadly encompass "social ownership" but there are many interpretations of that idea. Communism is under the umbrella of Socialism. If you've got a problem with Vanguardism that's understandable, but saying "communism is when the state owns the means of production" betrays a pretty deep ignorance of the political philosophy.
Tell me you don’t know what communism or socialism is without telling me you don’t know what communism or socialism is..
Isn't that what the literal goal of communism is? Under capitalism, it's in the bourgeoisie's hands.
A socialist state would be great though! :)