🏛️ Politics May 5, 2026 · Newswire Editor

New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers

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As record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork Collaborative, Workshop, and Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy outlines a coordinated campaign by corporations, trade groups, and their political allies to block enforceable heat protections for America’s labor force. The report’s authors, Adam Dean and Jamie McCallum, find that a nationwide heat standard could save thousa

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