They just can’t accept that they lost and the majority disagrees with them.
60% of Florida voters approved a $15 minimum wage initiative in 2020 — a bigger vote share than Trump ever got in the state. But the state GOP is now trying to gut the law by carving out exceptions for major categories of workers. "Party of the working class".
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-04-06T19:00:06.566473Z
Want to make less money? Florida GOP undermines voters with minimum wage scheme. | Opinion Source: USA TODAYshare.newsbreak.com/ccno7za3
— SherryRN @pissedoffnurse (@sherryll.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T12:22:18.418Z
🚨NEWS: After a supermajority of Florida voters passed a minimum wage ballot measure, Republican lawmakers are now trying to gut the measure in an attempt to let employers underpay subminimum-wage workers — including children. www.levernews.com/florida-repu…
— The Lever (@levernews.com) 2025-04-04T17:52:33.011Z
New from me: Florida drove immigrant workers away with hostile laws, we face worker shortages that are getting worse and pushing up prices, and therefore the legislature wants to gut child labor laws to put minors to work while also pushing a law allowing workers to be paid below the minimum wage.
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn.bsky.social) 2025-04-02T17:45:52.752Z
Sad! 