Add your voice to that of the Worker Solidarity Network and its allies! Tell Minister of Health Adrian Dix that workers need a maximum temperature policy to stay safe NOW! Join our phone zap virtually on Friday March 15th, at 6:30pm, be in community, and call the office of the Minister of Health to let him know workers in BC need measures to stay safe under the climate crisis.

Employment law was not written to anticipate a rise in extreme environmental disasters. For the last few summers, thousands of workers around British Columbia struggled under increasing extreme weather events such as wildfires, heat domes, and floods; and the coming years will continue to see an increase in unsafe work conditions for precarious and marginalized workers on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

Workers need better labour rights protections and enforced health and safety regulations that respond to the reality of the climate crisis as it manifests in the workplace. In the absence of climate protections in labour law, the task of keeping workers safe falls to workplaces and WorkSafe BC. Unfortunately, health and safety measures in the workplace are dated, rarely enforced, and ineffective.

Across the world, more and more countries and jurisdictions have adopted maximum temperature policies to protect workers dealing with heat domes, heat stress, and extreme temperatures.

Join us, make a call, make a difference. Workers are rising and so can you!