Employers and Trade Associations Are Resisting Heat Protections for Workers

Few states have rules mandating that all outdoor workers have access to water, rest and shade.

Sometimes the heat makes you vomit, said Carmen Garcia, a farmworker in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She and her husband spent July in the garlic fields, kneeling on the scorched earth as temperatures hovered above 105 degrees. Her husband had such severe fatigue and nausea that he stayed home from work for three days. He drank lime water instead of seeing a doctor because the couple…

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