Bill would require fitted sheets at hotels to protect housekeepers

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The Northerner (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-15-11 09:12 PM
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Bill would require fitted sheets at hotels to protect housekeepers
   
Edited on Mon Aug-15-11 09:12 PM by The Northerner
Business owners and others who have long complained that companies are overburdened by state regulations say a proposal now moving through the Legislature shows that lawmakers have lost all touch with reality: It would require that hotels use fitted sheets.

"We are now going to make it a crime in California not to use a fitted sheet? Really?" state Sen. Sam Blakeslee (R-San Luis Obispo) asked during a debate before the Senate passed the measure in June.

The bill, one of nearly 900 awaiting final action in the Legislature when it returns on Monday from a month-long recess, is intended to address back injuries sustained by hotel housekeepers. But it has revived a long-simmering debate over whether California has become a hyper-regulated "nanny state."

In 2007, the Legislature was subject to national ridicule when it considered a bill to outlaw spanking of young children. Embarrassed lawmakers eventually shelved that proposal, but businesses have decried the Legislature's subsequent ban on trans fats in restaurant cooking, requirement that calorie counts appear on menus, and prohibition on dairies docking cows' tails.

Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/14/local/la-me-bed...

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This idea is so stupid even the DUmmies hate it.

virgogal (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-15-11 09:21 PM
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1. They waste their time on nonsense like this? Madness !

bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-15-11 09:31 PM
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4. The bill is stupid.
   
I use fitted sheets at home. They are difficult to fold and cause more arm and back strain than my flat sheets cause. And I carry no more than two fitted sheets at a time due to their blinding my path, I can imagine a hotel maid trying to wheel around a cart of fitted sheets. The one advantage that I see with fitted sheets is that they do not crawl over the bed.

bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-15-11 09:35 PM
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7. Thoughtless bills like fitted sheet bills gives republicans talking points. nt

I would say it's evidence of how insane the left is.

[GOBUCKS]

bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Aug-15-11 09:31 PM
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4. The bill is stupid.
I use fitted sheets at home. They are difficult to fold and cause more arm and back strain than my flat sheets cause. And I carry no more than two fitted sheets at a time due to their blinding my path, I can imagine a hotel maid trying to wheel around a cart of fitted sheets. The one advantage that I see with fitted sheets is that they do not crawl over the bed.

Dummy bluestatenumbers, and everyone else who replied, is totally missing the point.

The proposed law has nothing to do with injuries to hotel maids.

Remember, this is California, land of democrat fruits and nuts.

The purpose of the law is to attack and damage an industry.

For the past forty years or so, that's been the key to political success in California.

[Duke Nukum]

Has there been a rash of attacks on housekeepers by non-fitted sheets?

[JakeStyle]

Has there been a rash of attacks on housekeepers by non-fitted sheets?

I've been reading about this issue in the local paper; supposedly many chain hotels have started to use high-end posturpedic and tempur-pedic mattresses, and they weigh a lot more than a conventional mattress.  They say there has been a huge increase in back and shoulder injuries among hotel maids as they attempt to lift the mattress edge to tuck the sheets in.  It's the service workers union that is pushing it. 

[thundley4]

I've been reading about this issue in the local paper; supposedly many chain hotels have started to use high-end posturpedic and tempur-pedic mattresses, and they weigh a lot more than a conventional mattress.  They say there has been a huge increase in back and shoulder injuries among hotel maids as they attempt to lift the mattress edge to tuck the sheets in.  It's the service workers union that is pushing it. 

You would have to lift the mattress even more to get a fitted sheet on than to slip your hands underneath to put a flat sheet on.

[Evil_Conservative]

bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Aug-15-11 09:31 PM
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4. The bill is stupid.
   

Agree.  Kind of reminds me of that law passed saying what kind of light bulbs I have to use in my home.

[catsmtrods]

I install boilers! I carry them down stairs! I've had back surgery. Where is the law they have to make them out of styrofoam?

[Karin]

Those loons do this kind of stuff just for the sheer joy of burdening and costing a business.  We've all made a bed.  With a fitted sheet, you get the 3 corners taken of, then you go to the 4th corner, and hoist it up with your knee to get the final tuck-in.  This is way more work than tucking in a flat sheet.  WTF. 

EC, I've been arguing with my congressman (D) about the lightbulbs.  He tried to tell me that the pigtails "created jobs."  I wrote back and said, "you do realize that they make the curly bulbs in China, and shut the Kentucky factory that made the incandescents, don't you?"  No reply. 

[USA4ME]

The purpose of the law is to attack and damage an industry.

Good to know that CA is taking on the corporate abuse we as citizens are forced to endure from Big Sheet.

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[Erasmus]

Those loons do this kind of stuff just for the sheer joy of burdening and costing a business.  We've all made a bed.  With a fitted sheet, you get the 3 corners taken of, then you go to the 4th corner, and hoist it up with your knee to get the final tuck-in.  This is way more work than tucking in a flat sheet.  WTF. 

EC, I've been arguing with my congressman (D) about the lightbulbs.  He tried to tell me that the pigtails "created jobs."  I wrote back and said, "you do realize that they make the curly bulbs in China, and shut the Kentucky factory that made the incandescents, don't you?"  No reply. 

Yes, but that sounds like work.  And we know about liberals and work.  They're like oil and water.  I expect California to establish the Department of Bedding, which will plow billions of dollars into self-sheeting mattress technology at UC Berkeley.

[BlueStateSaint]

Good to know that CA is taking on the corporate abuse we as citizens are forced to endure from Big Sheet.

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SEIU isn't going to take any old sheet, are they?

[GOBUCKS]

Those loons do this kind of stuff just for the sheer joy of burdening and costing a business. 

They've been doing it for so long in California, the hotel industry is one of the few they have left.

[NHSparky]

I've been reading about this issue in the local paper; supposedly many chain hotels have started to use high-end posturpedic and tempur-pedic mattresses, and they weigh a lot more than a conventional mattress.  They say there has been a huge increase in back and shoulder injuries among hotel maids as they attempt to lift the mattress edge to tuck the sheets in.  It's the service workers union that is pushing it. 

SEIU pushing it?  You'd think they would be encouraging it in lieu of going to the gym and getting bulked up to beat down black guys in wheelchairs...

[Karin]

They might as well just go all the way.  Put out those little cards in the hotel rooms that say,

"You want to save the planet, right?  Of course you do!  Washing sheets and towels consumes millions and millions of gallons of water each day, gone forever.  So, we're protecting the environment by foregoing clean sheets.  We know you'll stand firmly with us as we save Mother Earth!"

Fire all the hotel maids and rob SEIU of their dues. 

[GOBUCKS]

They might as well just go all the way.  Put out those little cards in the hotel rooms that say,

"You want to save the planet, right?  Of course you do!  Washing sheets and towels consumes millions and millions of gallons of water each day, gone forever.  So, we're protecting the environment by foregoing clean sheets.  We know you'll stand firmly with us as we save Mother Earth!"

Fire all the hotel maids and rob SEIU of their dues. 

I hate those cards! I'll bet the maids do, too.

No fresh towels if you hang them up?

Customers like me make sure every towel and washcloth in the room is on the floor, so we'll get clean ones.
 
Maybe all those SEIU back injuries are from picking towels up off the floor

[Paul Heinzman]

From the headline, I thought Bill Clinton was requiring fitted sheets in for the safety of the housekeepers. Didn't seem to fit his MO.

[Karin]

I know, when you read it that way, it's hilarious!     The old lech. 

[vesta111]

I know, when you read it that way, it's hilarious!     The old lech. 

No one has said that hospitals require fitted sheets or nursing homes, B&B, or motels.

When does the Military at basic training now expect a recruit to make his bed and bounce a quarter off it???

Instead of worry about fitted sheets, why not worry about bed bugs in the mattrace, what is that spot on the coverlet, why do the glass drinking glasses have finger prints ---inside them.??

I saw this ad for an ultraviolet light to take into hotels rooms to check for gems. I do so wish I had bought it at that time as this gizmo's is not longer for sale,   someone bought out the company for mega bucks.   

[oldcrow]

Just one more reason from a long list, that the legislature up in Little Moscow (aka Sacramento), needs to be part time.

[Erasmus]

I do so wish I had bought it at that time as this gizmo's is not longer for sale,   someone bought out the company for mega bucks.   

Not having that light may be a rare case of "ignorance is bliss".