Iowa state senate votes to allow children to work longer hours and serve alcohol
Source: The Guardian
In a pre-dawn session on Tuesday, the Iowa state senate voted to allow children to work longer hours and serve alcohol, the latest move by Republican-controlled statehouses to combat a labor shortage by loosening child labor laws.
The Iowa bill would expand the number of hours that children under 16 can work from four to six a day, allow minors to work in previously prohibited industries if they are part of a training program, and allow 16- and 17-yearolds to serve alcohol with a parents permission.
It passed the state senate by a vote of 32-17, two Republicans joining every Democrat in opposition. The vote took place just before 5am, after protests and delay tactics by Democrats.
We do know slavery existed in the past but one place it doesnt exist, thats in this bill, said Adrian Dickey, the Republican responsible for shepherding the bill to passage, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/iowa-senate-child-labor-law
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Response to NullTuples (Reply #1)
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Grins
(7,291 posts)See? It's not evil!
Judi Lynn
(160,755 posts)More from the original article:
Republican Senator Adrian Dickey
Isn't it strange to see the nation's original exploiters of children resurrected for a new life once more?
They win, humanity loses.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)these politicians are blind to their own corruption, hoping we will be also.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)
these politicians are blind to their own corruption, hoping we will be also.
Not so much a lazy way to get cheap labor, more an evil way.
betsuni
(25,887 posts)Republicans really are the party of the working class!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)dchill
(38,675 posts)bringthePaine
(1,748 posts)Rhiannon12866
(207,437 posts)Gaugamela
(2,500 posts)the targets of sexism, groping, and worse. Letting minors serve alcohol simply plays into the hands of pedophiles and patriarchal assholes. If theres a difference.
Small wonder the GOP supports it.
progressoid
(50,048 posts)It's been one hit after another from these knuckle-draggers. They're turning this state into a shit hole.
NBachers
(17,210 posts)16-17 year-olds (probably mostly female) serving drinks to older men. The song by Townes Van Zandt, best covered by Nanci Griffiths and Arlo Guthrie, Tecumseh Valley, comes to mind.
Lonestarblue
(10,248 posts)Kids dont learn when theyre tired and lack sleep. Kids under 16 working 6 hours a day, plus 7 hours a day in school, plus needing 8 or more hours of sleep leaves just three hours for everything else, like meals, traveling to/from work, homework, and play. But migrant families and poor families may have no choice but to have their children work long hours.
Republicans know that their children will not be working these hours because they can afford to support their children. To me, this bill is a not-so-subtle means of letting migrant kids and kids from poor families do more work and skip their education. They want an uneducated class of people who will have a hard time getting ahead in life and will not compete with their own kids. This is partially white supremacy but also caste supremacy. This is also a win for business because they can pay child laborers lower wages.
The Republican Party would gleefully turn to slavery again if they could. And their voters are perfectly fine with whatever they do because its all about maintaining privilege for a certain group of people.
William Seger
(10,794 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Rebl2
(13,652 posts)tanyev
(42,721 posts)Somebody's got to do the work no one else wants to do.
Crowman2009
(2,512 posts)More proof that the pro-life holy rollers are just puppets of the 1%.
CrispyQ
(36,619 posts)Serving alcohol? JFC!
And people will still vote for them.
Grins
(7,291 posts)It's only a lie they tell themselves.
Marthe48
(17,184 posts)All of us kids worked at the store, through the 1960s. My parents had a liquor license, and sold beer, wine, and 40 proof alcohol. I was under 14 when I learned to run the register, and if a customer came through with any alcohol, I had to call on an adult to ring that item up, and bag it.
I don't even know how far back iowa is regressing to come up with this law.
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