Foryears, labor leaders have called on the federal government tocreate national regulations laying out steps employers must take tokeep workers safe when it's hot.
Last month, on a day that was sweltering even by Phoenixstandards, Filiberto Lares knew he wasn't well. An airline caterer,he said he had spent hours moving between the scalding tarmac and atruck with no air conditioning. Lares, 51, was dehydrated and fellill with a fever that would keep him out of work for four unpaiddays. It wasn't the first time this had happened.
“Honestly, I never imagined I would live a situation like thisin the United States, especially not in an industry as valued asthe airlines,” he said in Spanish.
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