The Florida State Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit local agencies from implementing heat protections for workers. The GOP-controlled Senate voted 28-11 to pass the bill, which would…
The state needs to make a good policy for it. Not let dozens of different ones, or choosing to not have one at all, happen.
What actually happened is: the ones that chose to have a policy are now forbidden from having a policy.
There’s still no policy, for anyone, anywhere in the state. How is this not the worst possible outcome? Yeah yeah yeah, the state should have a state-wide policy, but as of this moment, they do not. And if they really wanted to have one, banning local policies was completely unecessary.
We just went from piecemeal protection to none.
Please stop excusing that based on what you’d like to happen, next. Our reality and your desires are not equally real.
What actually happened is: the ones that chose to have a policy are now forbidden from having a policy.
There’s still no policy, for anyone, anywhere in the state. How is this not the worst possible outcome? Yeah yeah yeah, the state should have a state-wide policy, but as of this moment, they do not. And if they really wanted to have one, banning local policies was completely unecessary.
We just went from piecemeal protection to none.
Please stop excusing that based on what you’d like to happen, next. Our reality and your desires are not equally real.