20-Year-Old State Rep Fighting to Revoke Lunch Breaks from New Hampshire Workers

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http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2012/02/09/nh-tea-partier-trying-to-revoke-lunch-breaks/



The Tea Party takeover of New Hampshire’s statehouse in 2010 has left the Granite State with the kookiest of the kooks. These exTEAmists are looking to end laws for no other reason than to say they did something during their first term. They have thus far failed to enact “Right-to-Work” legislation but have succeeded at obstructing anything remotely progressive.

Now, New Hampshire Republicans have introduced legislation that would do away with laws guaranteeing workers the right to a mandatory lunch break. AFL-CIO President Mark MacKenzie seemed at a lost for words when describing this policy monstrosity:

“Quite frankly,” MacKenzie said, “considering this is 2012, and I’m talking about the repeal of the lunch hour, this is outrageous.”

While acknowledging that most employers treat workers fairly, MacKenzie argued that changing the 36-year-old law was unnecessary and impractical:

“The reality is, absent a law, employers are on their own to treat their workers the way they think is most appropriate,” MacKenzie said. “Will they give them lunch hours? I don’t know if that would be the case. I don’t think every employer would deny them, but I think there would be some, certainly.”

[roguevalley]

1. douchebag one and douchebag two.

[tallahasseedem]

2. There are no words...

Well maybe a couple...I hate these assholes.

[louslobbs]

3. Wow! Idiot indoctrination must start early in extremist households. When will he sponsor the no

bathroom breaks bill?
Lou

[lpbk2713]

4. Unnecessary?

What a twit.

Some people able to function in the work force with diabetes and others with other conditions they
are able to keep under control must have regular intervals of food intake in order to remain healthy.


Typical tunnel vision from the same assclowns who want to do away with health insurance, Medicare,
Mediacaid, and any other form of subsidized health care.

[hifiguy]

5. I suggest that this douchenozzle be

put to work doing roof tarring all summer with no breaks. No water either; you'd be stealing the boss' time by stopping to drink.

Somebody make this arrogant young shit disappear. Giving him an enema should do the trick.

[Angry Dragon]

6. Still lives with his parents...........

He has so many life experiences

[geardaddy]

7. I'm sure this little twunt hasn't ever had a job before this.

He is the definition of twunt.

[KansDem]

8. What's he got against a lunch hour?

I mean, it was only a couple of years ago when he enjoyed a lunch hour in school.

Maybe the school hoods took his lunch money and now he has bad memories?

[mrs_p]

9. Doubt he has ever had to work an

honest day's job in his life. Da-hamn, these assholes piss me off...

Edit: Apparently Jones flipped burgers at a Burger King and puts all his faith in businesses to do the right thing. Boy, is he going to be utterly shocked when he grows up a little.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Seriously, are these people just trying to see who can come up with the most

ridiculous proposals to take us back to the 17th century? It seems like each one wants to outdo the next one.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Too bad NH can't pass a law requiring state Reps. to be older than

25 and to have had at least one course in US history. Or maybe that just need to disallow meal breaks while they're in session.

[Fuzz]

12. Nice little fascist who thinks he'll never punch a clock 'cause he's a natural leader.

Fuck this little twerp. Go work with an iron worker or garbage man for a while and learn something.

[asjr]

13. He is practicing to be a grown-up Republican.

[crazylikafox]

14. I'd like to send him down in a coal mine with only a candle and a canary.

After all, that's how they treated workers before they had unions & "rules". He wouldn't last 10 minutes. So much for employers "doing the right thing".

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. I twice worked at companies that gave less than 1/2 hour for lunch

Seriously.

One was a summer job working night shift at a manufacturing plant. We got 15 minutes for lunch and two five-minute bathroom breaks.
The reason? It was too expensive to shut down the machines, or so they said, so we had to wait till a "floater" could take our station, and there weren't enough floaters.

Another time, while temping during the Reagan recession, I worked at another manufacturing plant where we started work at 7:00AM, got a 10-minute break at 9:20, lunch for 20 minutes at 11:10, and then worked straight through till 3:30PM without another break.

My three years of temping were a radicalizing experience. I learned about the business world's caste system, where industrial workers report at 6:00 or 7:00 and get few breaks, clerical workers report at 8:30 or 9:00 and get an hour for lunch, and executives do whatever they feel like.

[left is right]

16. dearexTEAmist

first, please call it by its actual name: it is a lunch break not a lunch hour. Few of us get more than 30 minutes while some only get 2o minutes. To call it a lunch hour is dishonest.
Second, we are not paid for that half hour it cost the employer nothing except the continuing of electricity on the meter,
Third, there have been numerous studies that prove periodic breaks help employees maintain high efficiency and cuts down on industrial accidents. That lunch break that costs the employer nothing adds to production and reduces waste and the costs associated with accidents and deaths. It is good for the bottom line.
Fourth, have you even held a real job?

[applegrove]

17. This is what happens when you have kids brought up on neocon 'truths' rather

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than the liberal arts.

[Tom Ripley]

18. Laura, Laura, Laura, it appears that only shit comes out of all your orifices

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

19. wow, whatta scumbag.