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August 15, 2024

Unions Organize "Heat Week" as Extreme Temperatures Pose Mounting Dangers to Workers
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Workers with the United Farm Workers, the Union of Southern Service
Workers, Starbucks Workers United and others are organizing around the
country under the banner of "Heat Week," demanding protections from
extreme heat. Earlier this month, a 36-year-old sanitation worker in
Baltimore, Ronald Silver II, collapsed and died while on the job as the
heat index reached 105 degrees.


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