23 min
The Workers Left Unprotected On the Picket Line
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- News Commentary
OSHA finally issued guidelines to set stronger workplace protections as the pandemic continues… but only employers in the healthcare industry will be required to adhere to them. PLUS as the effects of climate change worsen, workers who toil outdoors are being left to face the deadly deadly heat waves we see from coast-to-coast. Host Monica Cruz speaks with Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and Tina Gonzalez, the daytime union representative at the Smithfield meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
OSHA finally issued guidelines to set stronger workplace protections as the pandemic continues… but only employers in the healthcare industry will be required to adhere to them. PLUS as the effects of climate change worsen, workers who toil outdoors are being left to face the deadly deadly heat waves we see from coast-to-coast. Host Monica Cruz speaks with Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and Tina Gonzalez, the daytime union representative at the Smithfield meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
23 min