It could take years for the federal regulator Osha to set new heat rules as excessive temperatures are killing Americans at work

It could take years for the federal regulator Osha to set new heat rules as excessive temperatures are killing Americans at work

  • Facebones@reddthat.com
    15·
    1 year ago

    OK but can we talk about how “Corporations think you should fuckin die in a field for capitalism” has to be relegated to the fucking socialist community? This shit is why I’ve accepted that at least by American Overton Window standards I’m a leftist as fuck now apparently lmfao.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    74·
    1 year ago

    So at work recently I was worked into heat exhaustion because my work station produces a lot of heat and they weren’t giving me a fan and also I had to dash back and fourth over a 10m gap to run a second work station (my step counter says 4 miles a night)

    I worked myself into collapse and had to be taken off the production floor as a sobbing wreck.

    Those fuckers installed a fan later that god damn day they could have given me a fucking fan when I asked for it in APRIL

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        24·
        1 year ago

        Yup! Why bother wasting a fan on me if I can power through the problem.

        Nevermind the fact that I had a near miss and could have ended up costing the company a ton of money by getting hospitalized - cost prevention is a waste of money!

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
            24·
            1 year ago

            Yup, and because I didn’t bash my head in when I collapsed, there were no consequences for abusing me!

            Gotta love Right-to-Work states.

            • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
              2·
              1 year ago

              So therein lies the solution. Next time you need a fan, just fall, when they panic and lift you up, be like “I’ve collapsed from the heat, if only there was a fan around… Who knows, next time I fall, I might bash my head…”

                • Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  You’re right of course, but right to work does not preclude forming or joining a union which is the implication. I’m pro-union and a union member, even moreso I believe the right to collective bargaining by employees ought to be inviolable, but closed shops are bullshit. If the union doesn’t serve it’s members to their satisfaction, their continued collection of dues amounts to coercion. An employee invoking their “right to work” is making a statement about how their union is representing them, (often via political speech which is the basis of Beck). Furthermore, I don’t know about all states, but I believe most still make you pay the part of your dues attributable to bargaining. That was/is the same when exercising your “Beck rights.” There seems to be a default position on the left that unions are only forces of good (and polar opposite on the right). There are countless examples contrary and IMO employees should be able to vote with their dollars when their vote for representation fails or is corrupted. Anyway, nothing is stopping OP from organizing in a right-to-work state, the bar is the same, convince enough of your fellow employees that a union is in their best interest. Many, possibly most people do not understand what the terms right-to-work or at will employment mean. That was my main aim when commenting on it. My bad for the hit and run instead of explaining why right-to-work wasn’t at fault, just a shitty employer.