Voters approved sick leave mandate by 58%, but lawmakers are caving to lobbying by the state’s chamber of commerce
Being sick is a costly business for Bill Thompson, who worked in the fast-food industry in Independence, Missouri, for more than 30 years, and recently worked at Guitar Center until early July, when he was laid off as.
“As an older worker, I have health issues from working on my feet and with my hands for many years with no breaks for eight to 10 hours a day. I have done it for 38 years now, living paycheck to paycheck,” 54-year-old Thompson said, noting in Missouri, workers are not mandated breaks of any kind during work.
So when Republicans in Missouri repealed a paid sick leave mandate that the state’s voters approved by 58% after an aggressive lobbying campaign by the Missouri chamber of commerce and industry and other business industry groups, he said, “It was a literal gut punch.”
You’re literally nitpicking.
It’s journalism. The least they can do is be grammatically accurate. It’s half their job.
The irony of this sentence is great.
also they’re not a journo
Oh boy. A typo on a discussion forum. Get over it.
The irony is you fucking up your grammar while complaining about grammar fuck-ups. There is nothing for me to get over. I just thought it was funny.
I blame it on the editor. What, you don’t have one? Neither does the paper, apparently.
The real answer is it’s a quote. It may be an inaccurate quote, but it’s still a quote. And people used to expect better from professionals, even professional lawmakers, like the ones in this story.
He’s literally quoting the person in the article. Your weird little nitpicky beef is with the subject of the article not the author.
Quotes. Yes, I’m still nitpicking.
It’s journalism to accurately quote. What you want is for the author to editorialize about grammar.
Though it would be hilarious if the author titled the article: