LINK Iowa Republicans voted just before 5 a.m. to roll back child labor laws, letting teens work on packaging lines and serve alcohol
(This is what comes of not allowing illegal immigrants to do work in the U.S. The jobs end up Having to be filled by children.)
The Iowa Senate voted just before 5 a.m. to pass a bill that would roll back child labor laws.
The bill, if passed by the House, would allow teens to work longer hours and serve alcohol.
A state labor leader told Insider he thought the bill's early-morning passage was a "disgrace."Iowa's Republican-led state senate voted in an early-morning session to roll back child labor laws in the state — allowing teens to work longer hours and to serve alcohol at their jobs.
The bill passed 32-17 before 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday with two Republicans — Sens. Charlie McClintock and Jeff Taylor — joining the entire Democratic party in opposition of the bill.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I think what really concerns me most about child labor, is how much of a choice does the child have in whether or not they participate? Can a child say, "I don't want to work, I need to graduated from high school?
I remember when I was 16, because I was a minor, I had to get a work permit in order to get a part time job. If you were not 16, you would not be able to get a work permit and would not be allowed to get a job at all.
I wanted to travel with a group of other student to students to several Asian countries, and so I got a job to earn the money to go. I also, wanted to get a job, so I'd have to work on Sundays and would not have to go to church anymore.
Anyway, it was my choice to work. I think it should always be the child's choice.
snytiger6
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Apr 21, 2023
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But since the Repubs only want to practice Trickle Up economics and keep the rest of us poor and ignorant, many kids need to work to support their families and have no option of ever going to college, which is how the Repubs want it for us peasants. So no, they never want kids of the peasants to have a choice, whether it's about working or about going to college. They just want scared, desperate, poor serfs to work for them and go fight their endless wars...
@TomMcGiverin Personally, I think the minimum wage should also be be a "living wage"... meaning that it shoudl be high enough so that a single adult can make ends meet, be able to afford rent, utilities, food and transportation costs workign full time on the minimum wage with just one job and without over time.
@snytiger6 So do I, but we will never get it, because almost all of the Dems in congress, as well as Biden, are corporate Dems, who are just as anti-worker as the Repubs, when it actually comes down to policy and how they vote, despite all the BS talk those corporate Dems put out at election time. A living wage will never happen in America until most people start to vote third party for pols that are members of an actual justice or workers party. The Dem Party these days is where ideas like this go to die...
They want to roll them back to the 19th century. That century doesn't have answers for everything.
freedom41
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Apr 20, 2023
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To the mid 19th century, so that slavery was legal again, as long as it did not allow straight white conservative Christian males to be enslaved.....Everybody else is fair game... The supermajority of Iowa Rethugs in the legislature are now so arrogant and assholes, that they will not even answer ?s from the Dem leader in the Iowa Senate, as he asked them during debate on this bill, about the legislative intent of the bill. The Rethugs refused to answer him, hiding behind a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling which was critical of the legislature's Repubs, so they said they would not answer any ?s on legislative intent of bills, because it could be used against them later by the Iowa SC. What chickenshit, arrogant pricks!
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