Power At Work Power At Work Blogcast #58: Surviving the Heat: What OSHA's Proposed Heat Standard Would Mean for Workers
In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Claudia Navarro, the Co-Executive Director of WeCount!, and Rebecca Reindel, the Safety and Health Director at the AFL-CIO. Listen now to learn about the current state of working in the heat in both Florida and the country as a whole. Also learn about OSHA's proposed heat standard, and how it would help the millions of workers working in extreme heat every day in the United States.
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Claudia Navarro is the Co-Executive Director of WeCount!, a membership-based workers’ center of agricultural workers, day laborers, and domestic workers in South Florida. Claudia’s work includes developing worker leaders, engaging in policy advocacy, and facilitating popular education, including WeCount!’s community radio station, Radio Poder 97.7 FM. Prior to this role, Claudia was a Domestic Worker Organizer at the Miami Workers Center, where she organized immigrant nannies, house cleaners, and home health care aides.
Rebecca Reindel is the Safety and Health Director at the national AFL-CIO where she brings key and emerging information on workers’ safety and health exposures to federal, international and state policy making. In these efforts, she brings together many stakeholders to assess and characterize workplace exposures, testifies in front of policy makers, and brings working conditions from the shop floor to the halls of government.