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This is the @Public_Citizen handle for worker rights, occupational health & safety, and whistleblower policy.
Washington, D.C.
Joined June 2011
Mapping 5 Months of Deadly Heat: 100 million Americans suffered through more than a month of extreme heat in 2023. Check to see how many extreme heat alerts were issued in your area. #ProtectWorkers @UCSUSA
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Inaction costs lives! Saving workers from heat stress can also save the U.S. Economy $100 Billion each year.
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Click above to read the report.
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Protecting workers from extreme heat helps the economy! #HeatStress #ProtectWorkers
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Reminder: there is no dinner without farmworkers. This was the hottest summer on record, but farmworkers continue to risk their health and safety everyday without labor protections. We have to do better.
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Over 20% of workers in Florida are working in 90º+ heat. And as the state bars cities and counties from instituting heat protections for outdoor workers, they’re requesting even more temporary migrant farm workers. Exploitation is the point. https://t.co/TGdJQp0sE6
wlrn.org
The national report comes shortly after Florida banned local heat protections for outdoor workers.
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The hottest states in the country, like Florida, are requesting more agricultural workers #HeatStress #ProtectWorkers
wlrn.org
The national report comes shortly after Florida banned local heat protections for outdoor workers.
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As temperatures rise, workers need water breaks, they need appropriate break areas, and they need to know that they won’t face retaliation if they need to take a break. These are common sense protections that we can all get behind, workers and employers alike.
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Calling all Florida organizations — ACTION NEEDED TODAY! Please sign on to letter demanding @GovRonDeSantis veto a bill that would prevent cities and counties from enacting worker protections from extreme heat. #ProtectFloridaWorkers
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Dear Florida Friends, Allies, Warriors for Social Justice for Workers and Immigrants, As you may know, on the last day of the Florida Legislative Session, our state legislators voted for a Heat...
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Florida @GovRonDeSantis must #veto HB433 - legislation that would prohibit cities and counties from protecting workers laboring in the extreme FL heat. He could sign the bill as early as tomorrow. Send an email TODAY demanding that he #ProtectWorkers! https://t.co/VOykDry9it
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Phoenix passes landmark rule requiring heat protection for outdoor workers | Phoenix | The Guardian
theguardian.com
Unanimously passed ordinance makes employers give contractors access to rest, shade, water and air conditioning in hottest US city
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The resolution asking the state for better wages for home health aides was buried in a legislative report, because it does’t make a real difference in the lives of home health aides and the people they care for. End 24-hour shifts! Pass Int. 0615-2024 now! @AintIAWomanNY
Thank you to our members for prioritizing this important legislation! Read more about today’s Stated Meeting:
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New York home care aides are forced to work 24-hour shifts and they are only paid for 13 hours - at minimum wage! The New York City Council must take action now and end 24-hour shifts! @NYCCouncil @NYCSpeakerAdams @AintIAWomanNY #ProtectWorkers
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NC farm where worker died of heat stress cited for OSHA violations, ordered to pay $187,000 fine https://t.co/noa6CuM8Ma via @YahooNews
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The Department of Labor began an inspection of the farm last September after a farmworker died while picking sweet potatoes.
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Florida Legislature Approves Law Banning Water Breaks and Cooling Measures for Workers https://t.co/8S6c1mNGLN We must pass federal legislation directing OSHA to issue a nationwide interim standard to protect workers now! @RepJudyChu
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The punitive cruelty of denying workers access to water and protection from heat in one of the hottest states in the country is monstrous.
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Ten State Attorneys General Petition OSHA for an Emergency Heat Standard and call on congress to pass the Asuncíon Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act. We must have protections in place before summer heat envelops us again!
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Thank you @NewYorkStateAG @AZAGMayes @AGWillliamTong @COAttnyGeneral @ILAttyGeneral @OAGMaryland @MassAGO
@NewJerseyOAG @PAAttorneyGen @DCAttorneyGen and Maine AG AAron Frey for urging congress to pass the workplace heat stress bill (HR4897/S2501)!
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As extreme heat soars, laws to protect outdoor workers are bubbling up — and facing resistance. Congress must act now to #ProtectWorkers by passing H.R.4897 and S.2510! @RepJudyChu @SenAlexPadilla @RepRaulGrijalva
https://t.co/lL6iDBl9Cg via @statnews
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Miami-Dade leaders vote this week on a rarity: a rule, with teeth, to protect outdoor workers in extreme heat.
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.@Public_Citizen opposes the outrageous HR4957 @USDOL Succession Act - a bill designed to limit the time that @ActSecJulieSu can serve as Acting Labor Secretary. The Senate must confirm her now! #YESJulieSu
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@Sen_JoeManchin @SenatorSinema @POTUS
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Workers can only last so long in the heat without water and time to rest. Tell Congress to give them a break! #ProtectWorkers
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Can you believe there is no @OSHA_DOL Heat Standard requiring employers to give workers breaks to drink water and cool down?!Tell Congress to take action and save lives https://t.co/AJWUgNWsWq
#ProtectWorkers
Andrea - currently a student at UCLA - and her mother Simona both work the fields of CA’s Central Valley. In this video, they share from experience the dangers farm workers face in the fields during extreme heat. #CALOR #WeFeedYou
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