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Workers in record heat without protection as Trump administration rolls back workplace safety rules
The Trump administration and Republicans are rolling back federal regulations protecting workers from extreme heat effects, including illness and death from heat stroke. Manual laborers, like Esther Minton of the New York Sheet Metal Workers union, must fend for themselves — for instance, covering their bodies despite 32°C temperatures. New thermal safety regulations were frozen, and heat protection standards proposed by the previous administration did not go into effect.
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