Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back.

Seems the strikes are starting to work. Not quite there yet as ac still isn’t guaranteed

But it incentivized due to extra pay during hot conditions

In what is likely an industry first, the workers at Homegrown won language in their union contract in March that could help with that. The workers fought for a clause that allows them to receive time-and-a-half pay when temperatures in the store reach 82 degrees Fahrenheit and double pay when store temperatures reach 86 degrees F. (According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, when a workplace reaches 77 degrees F, it becomes potentially unsafe for workers to engage in “strenuous work.”)