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[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements
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We should remove all those laws barring children working in mines, because common sense is that mining companies would not employ children... You are conflating two issues here. What the world ought to do, and what is really happening. Folks in Texas are struggling in the sun, and we ought to give them any tool we can do they can fight back.
Don't be like that. I wasn't talking about the world, or children in mines. Just this bill and the protests against its passing.
Nearöy every safety bill is written im blood. The blood of the workers , because corperations dont care about there workers, they care about a line ging up.
Without regulation workers would still be getting locked in factories, burning to death in care of fire.