{"id":1182549,"date":"2023-08-17T13:40:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=0d33d1ccf243f56adf37b72cda930914"},"modified":"2023-08-17T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:40:16","slug":"kitchen-workers-demand-federal-protections-against-excessive-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/17\/kitchen-workers-demand-federal-protections-against-excessive-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Workers Demand Federal Protections Against Excessive Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since she became old enough to work, Ariana Lingerfeldt has found cooking jobs in cafes and restaurants. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something I&rsquo;m good at,&rdquo; she told Truthout. For the past two years, her workplace has been the Green Sage Cafe in South Asheville, North Carolina. The eatery unionized in February 2023 and is part of Teamsters Local 61; staff are now among the 3 percent of workers in the Tar Heel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/kitchen-workers-demand-federal-protections-against-excessive-heat\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back-of-the-house workers are becoming ill or dying due to excessive heat &#8212; so they\u2019re organizing the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19129,5605,67351,67352,32612,453,4,3676,15222,67353,1,56183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192890,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182549\/revisions\/1192890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}