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Padilla: My Heat Stress Legislation Will Protect Farm Workers
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif) was in Los Angeles and spoke about creating Federal Heat Safety Standards to protect workers from the heat throughout the nation. Padilla was Wednesday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”. Padilla, Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced the Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act “to protect the safety and health of workers who are exposed to dangerous heat conditions in the workplace”. The bill is named in honor of Asunción Valdivia, a California farm worker who died in 2004 after picking grapes for ten hours straight in 105-degree temperatures. Mr. Valdivia fell unconscious and instead of calling

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