At a group partnering The Fair Food Program..a group between retailers, farmers and farm workers.
www.civileats.com “We as workers can’t afford to wait for the Florida legislature to find its conscience.” A good read..

codify their lack of any consideration for their fellow humans, especially if those are female, people of color, low wage workers, etc.

Let's see Gov. DeSantis work patching holes in a stretch of highway without water or shade or rest. He wouldn't last ONE hour.

so callous and murderous. so hard to understand
how they can still be called homo sapiens, an inbreed
to themselves~

DeathSentence is a straight up sadistic SOB. i have no doubt he gets a real charge out of signing cruel ideas like this into law.

And he is power hungry which makes him dangerous. In the long run, he could wind up being more dangerous than Trump. Trump is an old buffoon while DeathSentence is only in his 40s, and well educated.

Is this his way of killing off Mexican workers since no Americans will do those jobs?

unbearable to step outside in the summer.

I swear that is how he gets his jollies.

I'm sur he picked up a few tips while there

Because Federal law is the law of the land, including Florida. So, suck it GoGo Boots, if you try to interfere with federal guidelines, stye will be happy to come down there and explain it to you.

Where I am from, that would be considered an Excessive Heat Warning. Heat kills; it doesn't matter how well built you are. Last summer was especially brutal. There were not only Heat Advisories, but Excessive Heat Warnings as well, with heat indexes approaching 115-120. I hadn't seen that since the summer of 2012 when I was living in Virginia. But to me, I have noticed changes in the weather. I moved to Florida in 2015, and at least for the first few years, it was more or less what I would be expecting. But since 2020, it has been getting hotter and drier. The rainy season hasn't been as strong as it once was. There was a time where I could count the number of Heat Advisories in a summer on 5 fingers or less. But lately, I have been seeing it a lot more frequently. Usually when we got really good thunderstorms, it would drop the apparent temperature by 30 degrees or more. But at least here in Lakeland, I haven't seen it been it as often as I would like. In fact, last summer, the areas around Tampa/St.Pete were so hot and dry, they actually ended up being in an extreme drought, and it only just recently got cleared out.

When you sweat, you not only are losing water, but electrolytes as well. As somebody who works at Publix, even just being out there for 30 minutes bringing carts in, I had to bring electrolyte/spring water last summer because it was too hot. Unlike hypothermia, where people have survived when the core temperature has been 80 F or below, it's much narrower in the other direction. If it gets to 104-106, that could have be dangerous or fatal. Most don't survive when the body temperatures is 107 or above, and those who do are extremely rare.

I almost think these guys should spend a week out in the heat and drink nothing and see how they would like it. See how tough they really are. I bet you that they wouldn't last a whole day. But again, all of this is just for them, not us average Joes. These laws are there to benefit the rich.

I hope that people defy this abject law, signed by a degenerate barbarian. Give people water. Give them shade. Give them a break. Private businesses can do defy this cruelty and cities anywhere certainly should.

Who would be in favor of this? It makes no sense.

for authoritarian employers in Texas for decades. The employers who chose to have any protections in place for employees will be able to point out that "out of the goodness of their hearts" they are providing these protections, which the government fails to provide. So the employees will see the protections (which are likely much less than employees get where protections are mandated by government) as coming from business as opposed to coming from government. One more tactic to get people to look to their employer for help and to see government as weak and unable or unwilling to help them.

I scratch your back, you scratch mine. I hope this extreme bill will backfire on DeSantis.

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" is actually very benign compared to what I experienced. I would say that it was much more manipulative and a way of forcing submission and extracting obedience. Many of the owners for whom I worked were the descendants of slave owners and had an innate understanding of how to use people and absolutely no compunction preventing them from extracting maximum value from others.

It may bring these workers some economic pain, however if they stop working it will bring so much inconvenience to the elite class via the loss of all of the services that they provide, the whining and crying will solicit an appropriate response.

can't afford to boycott.

With Desantis and these right wing assholes, the cruelty isn't a bug, it's a feature.

Link to tweet

Why would he and they do something so stupid and counter productive - because they hate working class folks and don't want rich companies to have to spend one penny to save the workers lives! I hope FL crops rot from not having anyone to pick them. If enough people don't come here to work and crops rot, well, it's death sentence in action and people will take note. Yes, I will pay higher prices, but it would be so worth it. Maybe we will have to expand our container garden to more than many varieties of peppers and tomatos? That wouldn't be a bad thing.

... need more proof that conservatism's cesspool of malice has no bottom.

This law applies to government workers and contractors. It applies to public utility workers, contractors who are building/repairing government buildings, street repair and street construction etc.

If a worker falls ill from the heat and requires hospitalization, OSHA will open an investigation and will not laugh when they fine all those involved from protecting the work force. This Florida Bill is a state and Federal Laws and Regulations supercedes and state laws or regulations

Doesn't the scripture say something about healing the sick, feeding the hungry, etc?

Yup

He's finally started working on population control. And maybe he thinks THIS is the way to do it since he's already over-prioritized forced pregnancy.

Much less hot here than in Florida, which may come as a surprise to some.