Protecting people from extreme heat is imperative, and California should not ignore the needs of those who work in the state’s prisons and jails, including detainees.
NELP’s Anastasia Christman spoke to NPR’s Marketplace about this unprecedented moment of extreme heat and the worker-led demands to keep themselves safe at work.
California’s exemption of incarcerated workers from new workplace heat protections continues a pattern of cruel exclusions built on a foundation of slavery.
As global warming leads extreme heat around the world, workers are exposed to serious health risks because their livelihoods depend on them carrying on regardless.
While workplace fatality investigations are at decade-high levels under Trump, worksite safety enforcement by the administration’s OSHA is steadily declining.
