[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements ( www.texastribune.org )

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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.”

ThrowawayPermanente ,

I get where they’re coming from with this, but if I’m out doing physical labor in the hot sun I need water like ever 20 minutes. Four hours is an eternity.

thepianistfroggollum ,

It’s the break part, not the water part. I doubt they’re not allowed to carry water bottles, but they need a chance to refill.

RidcullyTheBrown ,

I get where they’re coming from with this

I really don’t. What is the point of this law?

Saneless ,

If the politicians can do those jobs under those conditions for a week, have at it

The actual benefit would be some state reps would die during the exercise, and well, that’s enough

thepianistfroggollum ,

Please make Abbot participate.

Swedneck ,
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So like what does it take for people to revolt? are they just going to stand idly by while their fellows actually die, waiting for their own turn to stroke out from overworking and dehydration?

yata ,

As long as it owns the libs, a lot of Americans, and in particular Texans, will very happily do that.

Swedneck ,
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chopping your dick off to own the libs

postmateDumbass ,

Texas is learning Qatari World Cup stadium construction methods

BuckRowdy ,
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Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.

Mdotaut801 ,

*Crippled little piss baby.

Normally, I would never dream of bringing up someone’s disability but I feel it’s appropriate in this case…because Abbott is one of the biggest shit stains in America.

AnarchistArtificer ,

It feels pretty shitty to be a disabled person scrolling by and seeing comments like this. I don’t think that Abbott being a shitty person makes your statement any less hurtful to non-shitty disabled people

electrogamerman ,

Bro, americans are slaves. I thought they abolished slavery.

webadict ,

Only for everything other than punishment, and being poor is a crime in America.

Raphael ,
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If you’re too poor you’re literally sent to a gulag and forced into slave work.

Raphael ,
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They also practice slavery in their gulags.

tegs_terry ,

They got chain gangs in Florida, in this prison where they eat meat scraps for alligators; the packaging says ‘not suitable for human consumption’.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe ,
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Watching Joe Arpaio proudly show off his concentration camp in Arizona to Chinese diplomats and with a grin talk about how they put women in chain gangs, earning hardly veiled disgust from the representatives of the second most brutal regime on earth.

tegs_terry ,

The veils need to come off across the board I reckon.

TwoGems , (edited )
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Ribbit

Waraugh ,

It’s crazy to me that anyone could sit on their ass in AC all day and even consider speaking to take water breaks away from construction workers. I went in figuring they got 10 minutes per hour and it’s only 10 minutes per four hours?! Fuck that noise, they need more time to rest and hydrate. What the fuck is wrong with people.

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