Would You Like to Work in Texas?

In the great state of texas one in five construction workers is injured on the job yearly and scores of them die of their injuries. There is no requirement that employers provide workman’s compensation or even pay them their measly minimum wages. Workers put in up to 12 hours a day 7 days a week with no guarantee of work breaks or fresh drinking water in temperatures in excess of 105 in summer. Maximum work week legislation does not exist nor is there any requirement to pay overtime. Workers have no right to refuse unsafe work and indeed there is a macho workplace environment that discourages complaint. In this, the Twenty-first century were he alive today Dickens would recognize eighteenth century working conditions. These facts are not the stuff of tourist brochures.