Two intersecting labor stories reinforce firmly that elections have consequences, and those consequences are borne right down to the ground level by the working class. On one hand, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the nullification of local water break rules for construction workers in Texas. Yes, you heard that right. On the other, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which took effect yesterday in New York.
I’ll be the first to say that at the national level, both parties are either batshit insane, in the case of Republicans, or bought and sold, in the case of Democrats. It’s at the state and local levels where politics generally impacts the populace at large. And so it goes here, whether it’s you vs. nature in the scorching heat, or vs. algorithmic quotas in the warehouse.
