"Ahead of a hotter than normal summer, activists call for immediate action to protect workers from deadly temperatures. “We shouldn’t be waiting for Donald Trump,” one said."
"A father died last summer. His son sat on the porch with a baseball glove waiting for a game he never got to play. The man didn’t die in a fire or a fall from a scaffold. He collapsed under the sun on a job site with no shade, no breaks and no water.
“This story isn’t rare,” said Kenneth Seal, a safety specialist with the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades at a rally for heat justice in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
“It happens every summer to someone’s father, someone’s brother, someone’s mother and someone’s daughter, because we think it won’t, because we think they will tough it out,” said Seal. “But toughness doesn’t stop heat stroke. Planning does. If you don’t plan for your workers to work in the heat and you’re gambling with their lives.”
Seal spoke at one of more than a dozen rallies held by a coalition of workers’ rights groups at sites across the nation this week to coincide with hearings held by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, on the country’s first proposed heat standard."
Liza Gross reports for Inside Climate News June 17, 2025.
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