Letter to the editor: Treat workers better, bring back blue laws

What are businesses going to do when college students leave in September? Families used the stimulus money to pay off bills and realized that with the cost of child care, clothing, travel and lunches, it simply costs more than it is worth working so one spouse can stay home. Now families will be getting the monthly child care credit. Many who had second jobs paid off bills and don’t need a second job to live.

Some businesses are shutting down on Sundays already due to lack of employees. Maybe it is time our elected officials bring back the blue laws that required businesses to be closed on Sundays. The GOP talks family values; they should put their vote where their mouth is. When we had blue laws, families spent Sundays together and in church, and relaxed and visited relatives. Now it is a rush to Walmart and haircuts and anywhere else that is open.

Businesses need to change. Workers simply don’t want to be corporate slaves for low wages and no benefits with their children living in day care. Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sundays and manages to turn a profit.

We don’t need businesses to be open on Sundays; it just became convenient for us. Workers don’t want to be there Sundays and holidays. If businesses started treating workers better and let them be involved in their families’ needs, perhaps they would have workers.

Carol Badgley

Hempfield