New bill eliminating work break rights rings alarm bells
www.newsweek.com
The bill would strip the legal right to a lunch break.

Say goodbye to breaks and lunch when working > 6 hours a day! Kentucky says just let the feds set the rules.

  • Mereo
    851·
    4 months ago

    The United States workers need to copy the French! Unite and strike! Workers always have the power when they unite their forces.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      563·
      4 months ago

      In the US the cops have a long history of killing striking workers.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 months ago

          French cops are the closest Western Europe gets to American-style policing. Don’t fuck with French cops, they will break your legs and get away with it.

      • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 months ago

        Well, that’s why you guys are allowed to bear arms, right? In case the cops and government get all crazy? Isn’t that the whole reason for the gun thing? So, go strike. Wait for cops. If they open fire, take them down. Mobilize more people, because the military is next. See what happens. Defend your rights. Don’t just pose around with a shotgun in your truck.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          The people striking aren’t the unemployed rednecks posing with shotguns in their trucks.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          112·
          4 months ago

          That workers in the US have a lot more reason to be wary about striking. Hell, just look at the way protestors are being treated in Georgia over Cop City.

          They should still do it, but also it’s more risky than in Europe.

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            10·
            4 months ago

            Also if you lose your job (which is harder to lose in the first place) in the EU, you don’t lose your healthcare.

            Plus a bunch of the ass backwards red states have laws against unions, dystopianly named “right to work” laws.

            • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              4 months ago

              Less than 100 years ago. I only tried one search though and found a story about a guy who killed a cop and a utility worker, then gave up.

              Edit: Blair mountain was 1921, so that was just over 100 years ago, but I expect there have been others since.

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
      7·
      4 months ago

      The problem with that is the coordination, a general strike like is the flavor in europe requires a lot of prep and a lot of coordinating resources to keep everyone from losing their shirts during the struggle, imagine the problems trying to coordinate a general strike across the whole of Europe, sans language barriers for the most part, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what America’s working with on the labor solidarity front