07/31/2025
Everyone please be safe out there. If your managers or supervisors try and downplay the heat, let us know. Your safety is important to us. Unfortunately, the summers are just going to keep getting hotter.
Justin “Cory” Foster, a lineman who often traveled to storm-ravaged communities to help restore electricity, was used to working in scorching summer weather. But as the heat index climbed to 113 degrees Fahrenheit on a job in Marshall, Texas, the temperature baked his body. After suffering from an acute headache, Cory's internal body temperature remained critically high and the damage to his internal organs was severe. Cory was one of an estimated 600 workers who die from heat-related causes on the job every year. His family is now grieving and want employers and the government to heed the warnings so more families don't lose a loved one to extreme heat.
Unfortunately, the Trump administration is making the problem much worse by eroding the Department of Labor's health and safety regulations and has stalled action on new heat protections proposed by the Biden administration that would shield 36 million workers from life-threatening illnesses such as heat stroke.
Workers shouldn't be dying on the job. This is why we have unions in the first place.
