Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.
The move marked a major victory for the state’s largest business group and a frustrating defeat for workers’ rights advocates, who had spent years — and millions of dollars — building support for the successful ballot measure. The repeal will take effect Aug. 28.
Kehoe, who also signed a package of tax breaks Thursday, described the paid sick leave law as an onerous mandate that imposed burdensome record-keeping.
The people VOTE for it, but Big Business bribes all the politicians to defy the vote of their constituents and give them what they demand.
IF we ever get out of this mess, we have to make some major changes to our system, do that these corporations and politicians understand that they work for US, and they will do what they are told.