Democratic Governors, Why Are You Turning Your Backs on Workers?
Another Democrat, the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, vetoed pro-operating bills three consecutive years: a bill to denounce work in 2021, a bill to provide agricultural workers with collective negotiation rights in 2022, and even a Minimum wage for agricultural workers in 2023, a decision that state labor leaders called “embarrassing and shameful”. This year, she finally sold, signing a bill on the minimum wage of agricultural workers, but only after the withdrawal of a section allowing workers to file their own pay wages complaints in court, rather than counting solely on the government to take measures.
Several so-called moderate democrats of the Minnesota Legislative Assembly supported (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to considerably reduce paid sick leave protections. And Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser and several allies to the District Council strive to repeal wages for wages for tilting workers that district voters have been massively promulgated by the voting initiative.
Negligence is also a political decision. As a former New York work executor, here is my personal bugaboo: see prosecutors of the Democratic district and other prosecutors to constitute Crack teams to continue the flight at retail, while leaving victims of wage theft with thin support. On the other hand, certain elected democrats, such as the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison and the District Prosecutor of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, have created teams dedicated in their offices to enforce workers’ rights.
Workers are currently undergoing extraordinary inflation pressure, housing crisis, health care costs, etc. Almost 40% of people in an annual survey on the Federal Reserve said they could not afford an unexpected expenditure of $ 400 without borrowing money or selling something. Residents of Colorado occupying full -time jobs must show evidence in order to sleep in their cars in a parking lot near high -end ski resorts. America workers experience wages, extreme heat, discrimination and stagnant wages; Few have employment safety, but many are linked by non -competitive provisions preventing them from leaving for something better. Basically, support for workers is essential, both in value and in large-scale economic well-being. The right jobs are the foundation of a high middle class, which is essential for a stable economy.
