Join our Heat Strike online rally: workplace temperature and Climate Justice with:

• Shelly Asquith - Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer at the TUC (Trade Union Congress)
• Sebastiano Calleri - National coordinator of Health & Safety in the workplace for the italian Trade Union CGIL
• Manju Goel from the Amazon India Workers Association (AIWA) representing Indian Amazon warehouse workers
• Claire Trevor,  Branch Secretary of Unite the Union Hospitality East Midlands and Youth Bureau President of the EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture & Tourism Trade Unions)
• Jamie McGovern, Communication Workers Union (CWU) Area Safety Representative in Royal Mail (Greater Mersey Amal Branch) and coordinator of Merseyside International Workers Memorial Committee
• Paul Holleran, Hazards campaign and GMB Regional education and health & safety officer for North West and Ireland
• Riccardo la Torre, National officer at the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
• Robbie Woodland, BFAWU Cornwall President from the Bakers, Food & allied Workers Unions

As heatwaves will hit the UK in the Summer, we are preparing a call for action: Heat Strike. This will see people across the country take action to call for government and employers to:

1. Set a national maximum working temperature - When it’s too hot to work, Heat Strike. Since 2008 unions have been calling for a maximum working temperature, but the UK government still isn’t listening. We demand the UK government set a national maximum working temperature.
2. Put in place a heat wave furlough scheme - Heat waves in the UK are only set to get hotter and more frequent, working people can’t afford to bear the cost of climate breakdown and they shouldn’t have to. We demand the government and employers set up a heat wave furlough scheme.  
3. Make a climate action plan - The UK government’s climate action plan has been ruled illegally inadequate. People are feeling the heat right now. We demand the government make a plan to protect workers and vulnerable people now, and to avert the worst of climate collapse in years to come

Given the anti-Trade Union legislation in the UK and the tight regulations of strikes, the Heat Strike is not a legal strike but a Day of Action, on a similar model than the Climate Strikes. We are aiming to include a number of workplace activities Trade Unions can engage with on the Day of Action whether they are lunchtime walkout, stalls or cool stations....