Florida workers died in the heat. Their deaths were kept from authorities

[douglas9]

It felt like 100 degrees on the job site by late afternoon.

“Truly unbearable,” was how Jonathan Baudilio Ramirez Salazar described Florida’s weather when he spoke to his wife on the phone the night before.

He’d worked one day in the thick July heat as a temporary laborer on a Fort Myers landscaping crew for TruScapes Industries Inc.

“Don’t go to work tomorrow,” his wife told him.

“My love, I didn’t come here to rest,” the 31-year-old said from his hotel. “I came here to work — I need to get used to it.”

Ramirez was far from home, a one-bedroom his family of five shared in Guatemala. He missed the chilly breeze descending each evening in Santa Cruz Naranjo.

https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2024/12/14/florida-workers-died-heat-their-deaths-were-kept-authorities/

[Biophilic]

1. Their deaths may have been kept from authorities, but authorities actually didn't want to hear it.

So called authorities made laws that allowed employers to treat workers like slaves and not require water or rest breaks. The authorities are complicit.

[GiqueCee]

2. Being reminded of that fact...

... just kicked my hatred of the Republican Party up a few hundred notches.
I dunno... what comes after "Supernova"?

[jimfields33]

3. Florida weather in summer is no joke.

I do some light weeding and in 15 minutes soaked all over. At the very least, they should have a cooler full of water they can grab every ten minutes or so. It’s amazing to see roofers out everyday doing 12 hours a day in summer. Some have been doing it twenty years. Amazing.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It's true.

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De Santis killed that man with the flick of his wrist.


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat.

Two million people in Florida, from construction to agriculture, work outside in often humid, blazing heat.

For years, many of them have asked for rules to protect them from heat: paid rest breaks, water, and access to shade when temperatures soar. After years of negotiations, such rules were on the agenda in Miami-Dade County, home to an estimated 300,000 outdoor workers.

But the new law, signed Thursday evening, blocks such protections from being implemented in cities and counties across the state.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244316874/florida-blocks-heat-protections-for-workers-right-before-summer