As record heat worsens, over 69 million U.S. workers face dangerous job conditions—most with no protections. Workers nationwide are demanding urgent heat standards.
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.
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.
