🥵 It’s time to strike while it’s hot!

This week is set to smash records for June which is why we are calling a Heat Strike on the hottest day of the year so far!

Stay safe and, if you can, stay home.

Sign up to show you’re taking part: https://heatstrike.uk/

Here are three simple ways to take part in the Heat Strike this week:

🚶🏽‍♀️Walk out - if work is putting you in imminent danger, you have the right to walk out under “Section 44” health and safety legislation. But you can still show your support even if you’re safe by walking out at lunchtime with a Heat Strike placard or banner with colleagues to share on social media with #HeatStrike @heatstrike.uk.

🌡️Take your workplace’s temperature - snap a pic of a thermometer at work & share it on social media with #HeatStrike @heatstrike.uk to demand a maximum workplace temperature now!

💧Set up a cool station - hand out water and safety advice to help your community. Set up a shady gazebo outside a busy station, local warehouse or office block.

You can find more ways to take part in the Heat Strike flatpack when you sign up. https://heatstrike.uk/

Over the past three summers we’ve built the relationships we were told would never work, creating solidarity between trade unionists and climate activists. From the TUC unanimous passing of a Heat Strike motion in 2024, Cool Stations across the country in 2025, and Section 44 training at union conferences.

When it hit 35°C in May we heard union and party leaders call for change. The pressure is building. This week is our chance as a coalition to win a campaign the Bakers Union have been working towards for over a decade.

Extreme heat is going to keep happening, and these heat waves will be increasingly hard on workers. But we are cooler together. Let's use this summer of heat to fight for better conditions now and a safer future for workers.

#HeatStrike #TooHotToWork #CoolerTogether

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Heatwave tips

Here are a few tips for surviving a heatwave. Drink lots of water. Put some plastic bottles of water in the freezer and use them as cold water bottles (wrap something around them) at night, and place one in front of your fan to cool the air. Keep curtains/blinds shut in the heat of the day and consider putting a sheet over the outside of the windows. 

Check on elderly relatives/neighbours and help them to keep cool. If your house gets too hot, think of somewhere you can go to keep cool-many public buildings have air conditioning. Consider insulating your house before the next heatwave, as this keeps it cool when it is hot as well as warm in winter. 

If you are a tenant, let your landlord know if your house gets too hot. If you are a landlord, make sure your properties are safe in a heatwave. You don’t want the death of a tenant on your conscience. 

If you are involved in education, ensure your school uniform policy is fit for purpose. Don’t make your pupils suffer.

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 If you have young street trees on your road, please water them.

Write to your MP to demand the introduction of a maximum temperature at work.  Working in prolonged heat and sun can be dangerous. It can cause dehydration, dizziness and cancer. The Health and Safety Executive say 4,500 people are diagnosed with skin cancer every year as a result of outdoor working. If you are in a Union, think Heatstrike.

Climate change is getting worse year on year. Only vote for politicians who take this seriously. We need massive investment to solve our addiction to fossil fuels and adapt to both a hotter and a colder future. As temperatures rise, eventually the currents that keep our climate warm could shut down, making UK winters like an ice age.

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