The USA PotatoScandals Engulf Labor Secretary as Her Department Rolls Back Worker Protections
Lori Chavez-DeRemer faces allegations of misconduct at the agency, and her husband faces sexual assault allegations.
Sage 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇻🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🍉Protection for gig workers would be awesome. Gig workers get abused so hard in this terrible job market. Mamdani has to take her idea for NYC.
https://www.wilsonforseattle.com/cityforworkingfamilies
#gigworkers
#workerrights
#contractwork
#katiewilson
#zohranfornyc
#workerprotections
Protection for gig workers would be awesome. Gig workers get abused so hard in this terrible job market. Mamdani has to take her idea for NYC.
https://www.wilsonforseattle.com/cityforworkingfamilies
#gigworkers
#workerrights
#contractwork
#katiewilson
#zohranfornyc
#workerprotections
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)While not likely to pass right now, it’s good they’re elevating this issue: “Named for Asunción Valdivia, a worker who died in 2004 after picking grapes for ten hours straight in 105-degree temperatures, the bill directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to establish effective heat standards to protect workers.”
#ClimateCrisis #ExtremeHeat #Politics #USPolitics #ClimateActionNow #ClimatePolicy #ClimatePolitics #WorkersRights #WorkerProtections
“As the Northern Hemisphere suffered through another hottest summer on record, OSHA issued draft rules meant to protect workers from extreme heat.
The rules are three years in the making, so far, but are likely to stall out within days after January 20. Worker advocates expect the rule to be placed in cold storage once Donald Trump takes power.”
#ClimateCrisis #HeatRule #OSHA #PublivHealth #Politics #USPolitics #WorkerProtections #ElectionsMatter
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/25/heat-rule-osha-worker-rights-trump/
Carolannie"Leaders in the agriculture and construction industries said such rules would create “an unneeded burden to thousands of businesses, a bottomless pit of red tape, lost time and money.” "
Worker protections are on the line.
This is just unhuman.
#USPolitics #HumanRights #WorkerProtections #RegulatoryStates #WhatWeCouldLose #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/florida-farmworkers-heat.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.VU4.ovm1.y93ES_ZfGs3Q&smid=url-share
Worker protections are on the line.
This is just unhuman.
#USPolitics #HumanRights #WorkerProtections #RegulatoryStates #WhatWeCouldLose #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/us/florida-farmworkers-heat.html?ogrp=dpl&unlocked_article_code=1.VU4.ovm1.y93ES_ZfGs3Q&smid=url-share
Political IQ#Poll: In the area where you live, has it been hotter than normal, cooler than normal or about the same as it usually is?
https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/27/biden-to-announce-new-protections-against-record-heat/ #Heat #HeatWave #HottestJuly #Workers #WorkerProtections #Climate #ElNino #Biden #politicaliq #news #politics #opinion #opinionpoll
https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/27/biden-to-announce-new-protections-against-record-heat/ #Heat #HeatWave #HottestJuly #Workers #WorkerProtections #Climate #ElNino #Biden #politicaliq #news #politics #opinion #opinionpoll
Biden to Announce New Protections against Record Heat https://politicaliq.com/2023/07/27/biden-to-announce-new-protections-against-record-heat/ #Heat #HeatWave #HottestJuly #Workers #WorkerProtections #Climate #ElNino #deadlyheat #NOAA #HUD #politicaliq #news #politics
CelloMom On Cars"An ongoing #heatwave, which has sent temperatures in Texas into the triple-digits, is fueling calls from advocates and others for #WorkerProtections, especially as #ClimateChange is expected to exacerbate such conditions in the years to come.
And while the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (#OSHA) in October 2021 issued an “advanced notice” that it would propose a rule, that hasn’t happened yet.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4072477-texas-heat-wave-worker-protections/
Texas heat wave invigorates calls for worker heat protections
When he works at his job as a painter in Texas’s extreme heat, Maynor Alvarez can feel the toll the weather takes on him. He and his colleagues have suffered symptoms from cramps to headaches, feeling like they’re going to throw up. He’s felt his heart racing and needed to take breaks. “All of us who have…