This Summer, US Workers Are Organizing to Beat the Heat
Workers — both union and non-union — are winning AC, safety breaks and, in one groundbreaking case, heat pay.
If you’re dreading summer on the job this year, you’re not alone. Every month last summer was the most scorching on world record. Trapped under heat domes, dozens of metro areas busted their longest streaks ever of highs over 100 degrees. Phoenix afternoons were over 110 for a month straight. On asphalt yards nearly hot enough to melt, bonus-hungry managers forced workers to keep up the usual pace.