Turn up the heat on protection for staff

WE need a Heat Strike! So say the majority of trade unions across Britain and beyond.

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Employers are failing to recognise the threat from high temperatures to its workforce, politicians have refused to identify a top temperature with stated conditions in which it should be illegal to be forced to work.

Our national campaign, Heat Strike, has won huge support from workers everywhere following the third heatwave of the year.

Drivers sat in poor quality commercial cabs have recorded 42 degrees centigrade whilst stuck in traffic. Bus drivers required to manage nine-hour shifts in 32-35C. Cafe kitchens and warehouses, many small offices and shops, are recording temperatures impossible to function within, employers uncaring and unready to supply any remedial equipment, workers fainting from dehydration.