“We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/14/texas-houston-worker-protest-water-breaks-law/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1689431363&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

The protesters called House Bill 2127 the “law that kills” and said it will leave those who labor outdoors at the mercy of their employers. Just two weeks earlier, a man named Felipe Pascual collapsed in the Houston area while working and died because of the heat, advocates said. They set a pair of weathered work boots on the ground in his honor.

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