House Bill 500 Takes Away Kentucky Workers’ Lunch and Rest Breaks and Cuts Their Pay   - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
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HB 500 is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers.

This inevitably happens in states and in industries with low or no union participation. Reason number 1,000 why workers have to stick together. Unionize … and strike.

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Trying to hope this will galvanise workers in Kentucky into unionising at last, but suspect it won’t, and that Republican strategists are primed to roll out all the usual tactics to discourage it.

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