America is kicking out its undocumented immigrants. Unfortunately that means there aren’t enough people available to do vital work. Don’t worry - Florida has a solution! The state is currently looking at lifting child labour laws so kids as young as 14 can work night shifts. Do chimney sweeps next - ThreadSky

chadbourn.bsky.social • 36 days ago

America is kicking out its undocumented immigrants. Unfortunately that means there aren’t enough people available to do vital work.

Don’t worry - Florida has a solution! The state is currently looking at lifting child labour laws so kids as young as 14 can work night shifts.

Do chimney sweeps next

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jimkennymdant.bsky.social•36 days ago

One flue over the cuckoos nest

janemick.bsky.social•36 days ago

incredible 😳

kevingrobinson.bsky.social•36 days ago

So in essence Child Slavery is their solution to kicking out immigrants doing the jobs Americans won't do! Florida really took to heart the phrase:

Party like its the 1800s! 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

wilfhound.bsky.social•36 days ago

The fruits of the children sweeping under the looms.
Get your "Made in the USA" T shirts here.

hyperionpsn.bsky.social•36 days ago

They've already loosened the laws in some red states iirc. Kids working in abattoirs etc 🤮

frenchie.bsky.social•36 days ago

You're kidding?? right?
FFS

stephenold.bsky.social•36 days ago

It happened in the UK. The Tories sent all the workers back to the EU and then found they had no-one to pick fruit and to harvest other crops on the farms. They even found it difficult to get enough strawberries for Wimbledon a few years ago.

frenchie.bsky.social•36 days ago

I remember that, but we did not go as far as untightening kid's labour.
I remember some tories wanted the OAP and prisoners to do it.

stephenold.bsky.social•36 days ago

Oh yes,we did not bring back child labour but rich Tory MPs thought that pensioners should make sure that they did not run out of fruit. It is the same mindset and the same mistake.

frenchie.bsky.social•36 days ago

Indeed..

lancasterjohng.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html

frenchie.bsky.social•36 days ago

Fucking hell.

nouttosell.bsky.social•36 days ago

That was always the plan.

knockaboutwok.bsky.social•36 days ago

And removing mandated meal breaks for those child labourers.

Dickensian stuff.

tammysue.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yep. They are really wanting to get 30 minutes of extra labor out of children by not letting them eat.

pluribus-unum.co•36 days ago

Bad Cockney accent optional.

howidiotami.bsky.social•36 days ago

not enough..! florida should look to third world countries where 5 year old kids actively work.. for FREE to boot..!

ka7ma.bsky.social•36 days ago

arrest latinos on BS immigration raps and get free latino labour

laughing-pete.bsky.social•36 days ago

Ugh. This is so depressing.

thelionseye.bsky.social•36 days ago

get them back into the factories. their little hands fit so well into the machine

parisdaguerre.bsky.social•36 days ago

Night shifts for child workers?
Disgusting.

mrsivb.bsky.social•36 days ago

Seriously? Good lord, it is truly going backwards.

mja66.bsky.social•36 days ago

Why not? There's a little boy in The White House 🍊

jodami.bsky.social•36 days ago

Florida is definitely living up to its reputation.

jodami.bsky.social•36 days ago

They are only 32nd in child molestation rates by state, got to bump up those figures.

It’s a retirement state, which probably explains it.

producer-john.bsky.social•36 days ago

texaskrusty.bsky.social•36 days ago

Damn lazy middle schoolers will finally contribute to this society!

glengirl.bsky.social•36 days ago

Are there many chimneys in Florida???

capemaydave.bsky.social•36 days ago

Just like Orwell's 1984, Dickens' Oliver Twist is not a how to book.

alanjstedman.bsky.social•36 days ago

Well yes, but you will be hard pushed to find many chimneys in Florida

Lift shafts?

🤭😬🤣

cko236.bsky.social•36 days ago

Monsters!!!

whisperingwind.co.uk•36 days ago

Won't those kids be taking jobs from all the unemployed federal ex-workers looking to make their next mortgage payment?

sandya.bsky.social•36 days ago

The ex-federal workers will all have been recruited by China by the time the child law passes (the Chinese have already started their recruitment drive so I read). So lots of kiddy labour will be required sadly.

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•36 days ago

I was reading that last night. I was trying to find the article where UK is considering reducing school leaving age here...effectively the same thing, and, I think will tie in with Reeves/Rayner's 60,000 construction apprenticeships.

terrielizabeth.bsky.social•36 days ago

Ffs 👀

wildbore101.bsky.social•36 days ago

when do they expect the child 2 go 2 school, then i remind myself they're trashing Education 2

stevelockley.bsky.social•36 days ago

How long before the minimum school leaving age drops to 14 too? Education doesn't seem to matter that much to the current administration.

needlesandbits.bsky.social•36 days ago

Arkansas laid the groundwork for this last year, no?

daveacoley.bsky.social•36 days ago

Where George III failed, Trump will succeed.

judithf.bsky.social•36 days ago

I think this is great, not only will there be a brain drain, there will be a workers drain too. Let the US wallow in stupid shit & lose everything.

notjobloggs.bsky.social•36 days ago

What about all the newly unemployed federal workers sacked by da doge?

samspade1941.bsky.social•36 days ago

It'll be like the good 'ol days before those nasty child labor laws went into effect.

Kids will be able to work in factories and in the mines.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/child-labor-industrial-capitalism/tnamp/

djmissbluesky.bsky.social•36 days ago

Is there a source for this? And did they actually mention night shifts?

chadbourn.bsky.social•36 days ago

Link in the thread and yes they did.

djmissbluesky.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you!

drpaullee.bsky.social•36 days ago

I had to look up the date but no, April Fools is next week.

dragonblaze.co.uk•36 days ago

Lewis Hine took this photo of child labourers who worked in very dangerous conditions in the Pittson Coal Mine in Pennsylvania.

I guess they want this cruelty to return.

magicmoore.bsky.social•36 days ago

Looks like you all learned well from slavery. This time it won’t discriminate.DEIA and children are welcome.

blackhole.bsky.social•36 days ago

Repeating the mistakes we made during Brexit.

rwdwhite.bsky.social•36 days ago

I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn’t 1 April.

How ridiculous.

ibarrurilives.bsky.social•36 days ago

They only had to look at Brexit and it's loss of EU workers.. Fruit n Veg pickers, Gone, Hop pickers, gone, slaughter men, gone, flower pickers, gone.. multi skilled builders, gone, NHS staff, gone... It really was in plain sight...

smidgendublin.bsky.social•36 days ago

Consider my gob to be completely smacked.

tonykainth.bsky.social•36 days ago

Suddenly this feels even more relevant…

https://bsky.app/profile/tonykainth.bsky.social/post/3llbpof4na22c

carlabela1.bsky.social•36 days ago

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