In a recent Atlanta City Council Committee Community Dev.

& Human Services Meeting, our Workers’ Rights Organizer Lucia shared the urgency of ensuring protections for workers against extreme heat, highlighting that heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and in severe cases—even death—, are risks that many workers confront without proper cooling or relief. This is an issue that worker advocates and public health experts agree just cannot be ignored. Workers suffer while unscrupulous employers fail to guarantee water, shade, proper bathroom breaks, and more…basic human rights that our city’s workers need to carry out their work without putting their health in danger. In Lucia’s work with @playfairatl’s World Cup resource center, she witnessed a number of workers who we’re visibly suffering and uncomfortable in the record-breaking Atlanta heat. She was even made aware that a worker had fainted from extreme heat while working near the Atlanta Stadium this summer. These are preventable harms facing the people who keep our city running, and they should not have to confront them alone while also carrying their intense daily workloads. We’re proud to stand by initiatives to improve conditions for workers, especially Georgia’s low-wage and immigrant workers who are most vulnerable to retaliation or intimidation.