• Changetheview@lemmy.world
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    “OSHA regulations take an average of seven years to be finalized. In July, Democratic representatives introduced a bill that would force OSHA to speed up this process. It was their third attempt. They have failed to secure enough votes every time.”

    That is insane. Not only do private interest groups “lobby” (bribe) our leaders to avoid regulation, even if it something miraculously goes through legislation, OSHA takes another 7 fucking YEARS to finalize it. That’s downright pathetic.

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    Conservatives are the minions of the corporate class. As long as conservatives have influence in legislation, there will be a lack of protection for the working class in our laws.

    The solution is to remove conservatives from our politics. We either marginalize conservatism or we suffer.

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      Conservatives and Liberals are the minions of the corporate class. As long as Conservatives and Liberals have influence in legislation, there will be a lack of protection for the working class in our laws.

      The solution is to remove capitalism from our politics. We either marginalize capitalism or we suffer. …

      Thoughts?

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        If by “liberals” you are referring to U.S. neo-liberals, I won’t disagree. I think regulating the fuck out of capitalism is the answer we are looking for.

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          I agree. No doubt one party’s actions are more reprehensible, but there’s a much deeper rot at the core of this.

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    TX recently passed a law that invalidates/prohibits local ordinances mandating water breaks.

    It’s not just that the laws aren’t there, it’s also because people like Abbot are doing everything they can to remove those protections.

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    the cost of life, it seems to get cheaper

    out in the desert, with my street sweeper

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      Not always, there’s a lot of people involved in elections and it takes a majority AND having to get past decades of gerrymandering to make it happen.

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    I’ve noticed that labor laws don’t really work in America anyway. Most of my jobs I’ve had in my life have been operating under several OSHA violations, and my current job tops the cake on that front, daily there are likely dozens of OSHA violations, but OSHA doesn’t do jack fucking shit about any of it, inspections hardly exist, and when they do management mysteriously knows they are coming and what to hide.