tucked by in southern thailand to mother's sister and brother, funded by grief that now 20 years old. their relatives killed by the time in the tree as they dispersed on muslim protest as in the town of tough by florida. when i 1st found the body, i was shocked and i fainted. i couldn't move. my son's friend was in the same truck . he told me that they were piles at 5 layers deep. my son was on the bottom layer and he kept calling out mama, mama! on the 25th of october, 2004 more than a 1000 local men gathered around tech by police station to protest the detention of 6 village cheese. the authors is trying to disperse the crowd 1st with both it can take guess them live rounds coming 7. the remainder were rounded up in trucks stacked on top of each other and driven toonami camp. by the time they arrived, 5,

as late to 78, men had died of suffocation and heat stroke in the provincial capital, no matter what. a small exhibition commemorates some of those who died. but despite a recent decision to prosecute army and police chiefs of the time, no one has been arrested and the statute of limitations expires on friday. do you need done? no pushing to extend this case because they won't the justice system to do its work and punish the people who are doing wrong. this is what the people won't hear and have been waiting for it. can many questions remain unanswered. even the identities of some of those who died because the tile starts is never fully investigated, the tech by must get more than 20 of the victims. whenever properly identified, the bodies have been buried here. the last 20 years. most of the time is received compensation for the deaths, not

a single person has ever faced charges. although several, including a permanent m p, recently flipped the country to avoid arrest. the fact i think the angle is still inside my body that i had for keep them here. well, this is my own, this feeling from the, in my mind. but i don't want to keep the ankle inside all the time. he's had to speak out. they say the time heals all wounds, 20 as own, there's no closure here and the profound feeling of loss and the burning sense of injustice to anything else as 0. talk by southern time then started the goal and using the house, the fault lines business the is real, is judaism in judaism, is israel many american cheese are raised with a one sided view of israel. this is our land. that's what was conveyed to us found

in the depths of my family's house, but the tide is shifting as younger jewish americans learn the reality about these rails treatments of the palestinians. i was never in the palestinian house to live barge into one in the middle of the night. it's a military occupation, is right, is an episode one on al jazeera. we travel to central mexico to meet the family of a man who went to work on a farm in the united states and never came back. he had died of heat stroke. his case was a star warning, there is temperature sore. working outdoors is becoming more dangerous around the world. we say climate change as a threat, multiply. it triple stumbles, just really increases your chances of getting sicker. and of course, from here you can actually die. we've been tracking down stories of workers in the us who lost their lives from exposure to extreme heat. in many cases,

their names are not included in the articles about their depths. we reviewed medical examiners reports and police records to locate people. that's how we found the family of salvatore garcia, expedia, and the american may see it on the prism that off. well, maybe what can i start going to tell them? well yeah. like what the heck on the scene. ok. my, he now most go what up with a quarter that a one b as a fucking all those for the throw her either way. good. his out. it's unclear exactly how many workers are dying in the us through the heat exposure . but the watched our group, public citizen says it could be as high as 2000

a year. these workers are now having to ask themselves whether to go to work and risk their lives or stay home and sacrifice a peach. there are no federal, he protections for them. more than 30000000 outdoor workers in the united states in florida for salvador died active as have been pushing for years for more protections for workers. but they've been blocked by industry, trade groups, and republican politicians. why would you ask for the government to do more? we get paid by the hour, but when we want to take more breaks, we don't want to work so hard. on this episode of fault lines, we look at the danger of extreme heat for outdoor workers. i really think that we can all agree that we don't want people dying out in the fields. people should not go to work to die. the

. this is the small village in central mexico or salvador garcia, speed cancel out. p and maria fell in love. this teenagers and got married a few years later in 2021. they welcome their 1st child isaac. they weren't financially stable yet for excited to start a family being very cool and what's going on. so it's that many that antonio's and feels economic. i'm what's gonna happen all pretty more to be out of that outcome. always told you that economic product that gets started would increase it became more difficult when their johnson isaac was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and needed specialized treatment. and increase the pressure on salvatore's job at the local dairy plant. lots that are based on the west coast office. and of course, the right of it. i mean, it doesn't look at it on the summer. they decided that salvador would get an age to a visa,

to travel temporarily to do farm labor in the united states where he could earn more money, get it for we get a here and he started paid us in court, i guess is what are the. ready see, can we have what events e, dental or the dental for the community liaison? he was legally here by the united states government, his passport, everything was authorized. so everything was above for the say like a, a, the, any say i left somebody that square but apple income, but i may see them, but uh, but us, we hold in court though as soon as i expected. so we'd get set up. but i'll see me when i sit down me. come in, thought it was covered on monday. how they did that. in september of 2023. salvatore traveled here to south florida by boss to begin working to get trained to work on a tractor but began his assignment on top of the truck, planting sugar cane. on his very 1st day, just

a few hours into the job. he collapsed due to the heat. no one called 911. and it was his co workers that drove him to a hospital and according to the department of labor, more than 50 percent of workers who die of heat related illnesses dying their 1st day. and more than 70 percent died during the 1st week. there are no requirements for employers to climate change their workers to get their bodies used to the environment. there should be a process where the person can adjust to the temperature, understand how much hydration is needed, and over 2 weeks get, i'm a climate type. and not just i hire you, go to work. salvador was put on a breathing machine. and within 3 days, he had taken his last breath. he was 26 years old. according to the medical examiner's report, his kidneys failed, and he died of heat stroke. this has the medical examiner's report for side,

rather as he has beat the. and i was just wondering, you know, as a doctor, is there anything that stands out to you when you're looking at this for body temperature 109 degrees fahrenheit. that is shockey $109.00. that is shocking. that's we see the danger and the breaking down of all the oregon's by one . 07. and he's already at $1.00 oh $9.00. did he have to have a prior medical condition for his core body temperature to reach a 109? absolutely not young healthy people, gen die from each stroke. no other problems. and you're get exposed. you can die. love. yep. i saw a lot of i see, i will know is amazing and we'll just but that's what, what is the send me out a one up in front of me to see, i don't know if maybe i pass out it will but a 0 squared away in the same veteran, while, while the i don't want to and it's

a horrible tragedy. i mean, he came here to support his family. she would hope that someone would be checking on their workers a little bit more closely. there's a spot that people of color have been built to work outdoors that they thrive, working outdoors. and so there's this kind of mentality and some people that if you're a person of color, you can handle the sheets around 75 percent of farm workers in the us, for latino, extreme heat causes more. dest been in the other weather related event in the us, more than $1000.00 americans die every year, from extreme heat, for 2050, that figure is expected to rise to almost $60000.00, as a result of climate change. stories like salvatore's are becoming more common across the united states. there been high profile incidents where outdoor workers

have to come to the heat. when someone has heat stroke, you're burning from the inside. your cooking from the inside, your brain is cooking away. your temperature internally is so high that or can start to fail, and you will have major shutdown of the kid to use the heart to proceed. this year, the bite, the ministration proposed, the 1st ever federal. he protections for workers, including access to shade breaks in a climate type zation. the heat is expected to be challenged by industry, trade groups, and republicans in congress for the time being employers are only legally required to provide potable water. and sometimes they fall short on that. the workers that we talk to tell us that the often times do not have access to clean safe drinking water. they are not allowed to take regular rest breaks to seek shade to

pull down their bodies. florida is the hottest state in the us and leads the nation and heat related illness. 5 years before salvador died, advocates for outdoor workers and immigrants trying to get the state to pass heed standards, including a training component it could have saved his life. we count farm workers association, florida, some responsible employers, all came together to introduce legislation that what is required, outdoor employers to provide a 10 minute respirator every 2 hours of work each time their effort was blocked by industry, trade associations, and republicans activists devise a different strategy to pass legislation to protect workers in 2023, they decided to try to pass the he protections locally in miami, dade county, the largest county in the state, and home to more than 300000 outdoor workers. we had hundreds of actor workers

speaking in support of this effort. and really, you know, we were on track to pass the 1st county wide heat standard. in the united states, large trade associations, lobbied republican state legislators to intervene. the heat bill didn't pass. republicans pushed through a different law blocking local governments from establishing he protections for workers. florida lawmakers passed to build the session that would outlaw local mandates, meant to protect workers from extreme heat. they went into effect july 2024. so at the last minute, when the state stepped in and blocked the efforts of miami dade county, how does that feel? our members really felt defeated. this wasn't an issue about, you know, left wing right way. it was more of an issue about right versus wrong. and it was

very disappointing to see that the state handicapped our local cities and counties ability to take action on this issue. a similar strategy was utilized in texas, where republicans passed a similar bill that prevented local municipalities from enacting protections. it's in human and it's, it's a horrible bill and it's a shame that the government passed this kind of bill not for the people, but instead for the employers of environment for over 40 years. so i'm in a business manner and an employer, and we need more business people running for public office to like donald trump. like rick ross cosponsored, the bill pre empting, miami dade county. he also represents bell quaint, the city where salvatore's people collapsed in the field. is there something wrong with mandating a 10 minute water break every 2 hours to mandate it?

yes, i do think is wrong. we don't want local governments setting in their own standards is not, is not the local governments job. should the state of florida pass heat protections for outdoor workers? here's my thought. all that cause i do a lot of research on climate change and other factors. my knowledge base says know that things are not changed that dramatically. like the news media want you to believe that we're going through a cataclysmic temperature increase. even if there was the hottest day recorded on planet earth was just the other day. i mean, or not, we know is it just the fact i think it's overboard. do you have sympathy for these workers and for what they're asking for? yes, of course i do have some of the the they would like to have easier working conditions . that doesn't surprise me. why would you ask for the government to do more? hey, we don't want to work so hard. we want to take breaks. we get paid by the hour, but when we want to take more breaks, we don't want to work so hard. i would challenge representative ross to come spend

the day as a former, to spend 8 hours in triple digit temperatures. these workers are not asking for more brakes. they're asking for the right to suffice. roofing prefer energy. i mean that's those people have steam coming off of their body after one thing outside for hours. you know, i don't know that i want to be a roof or that's, that's pretty tough. um should they get water breaks your asked me the same question 3 different ways as a site available there. they're different. no, it's the same answer. the same is or is that's the responsibility of the employer. but if the employer isn't doing that, then what? i guess you have to go work for somebody else. we have bad history on valley valley in the lives of farm workers that trace back to when people were in sleep a doctor,

roxanne, and chico as has spent nearly a decade studying the impact of extreme heat on the farm workers. as the hotel workers have the highest rate of heat related mortality, $35.00 times more risk than any other occupational group. what is the long term impact that the heat has on the workers? then we know that once someone has a cube, jenny injury, they are risk for developing chronic kidney disease. part of her work that's collecting data on the body temperature farm workers throughout the day. she hopes this work will educate lawmakers about the dangers of heat exposure. we accompanied her to a furnace e in north florida where they grow the cream leaves that go and flour bouquets. pardon me, workers. they work out doors, but they work underneath this black mesh. sometimes people think that the, the mash is there to protect the workers to give good shape. but it's not, it's for the protection of the firm because the firm cannot get direct sunlight.

lorenzo not a silly escalade or were wired with heat sensors before they went to work. they have to bunch together around 20 leaves and get paid roughly $0.50 for each bundle . the workers also work really fast, because that firing needs to get on a truck. if it doesn't get to the cooling warehouse within 2 to 3 hours, it starts to weather away and they don't get paid for that bunch since december to february, sending it out to come with us to think, you know, same thing which we can look at a bunch of them, which we could actually do research get by the way that the head when as, as a, a for to see if that i'm a split group was a little bit ago. no special on the sped. i'm a little baby like i was supposed to get my mutual. i mean look this and look, there's a lot of making them go to the seller. it's his skin temperature and it was $37.00, which is nothing. so elsie is in fairy height, that would be about

a 100 points one. i couldn't see your head and take it down. this might sound this might. yeah, because since, but, so in this case this to the keep it on the i c k can, can you know what that kind of to come to the bathroom. they're working with a fever, but no exception. and they have very much the same symptoms that you and i happen. we have a fever, print, headaches, sometimes they may feel nauseous. roxanne and her team analyze blood and urine samples. they take their vital signs as to workers, questions about how they're feeling and share their results with them. and then like any other, say that, that you anything that's out of it. and it says, you know, of course there they see that, that them being of seek if it was that is a lot of which i, which i was that on through the, the husband has diabetes and she was right up the cost of pre diabetes. so i will

know, fair sort of thing. that is yes, look at also think most businesses as we'll see this on to you as to what your point of what a young because of that. and many of the screen seats in quite a cleaning. the husband reported that they, that he went to a clinic, but that he didn't take his medicine. he that he would go back. see where you have this is definitely at a higher risk of heat stroke. so let's see 5, it's one of those things. so for this because they push themselves, they think that they can withstand the seats and they can keep going. but someone like him has diabetes. that's. that's dangerous to continue to work like that. what do you anticipate seeing with the health cuz outdoor workforce, as temperatures keep rising as of temperatures rise, i'm very concerned about a workers health. you know, when we have state governments that are pushing back staffing,

local counties for protecting their workers, to me, that's just on thinkable because they are so essential to our economy, to our society, to our culture receipts a lot of specific. so people with dying, but kind of gateways. people don't understand what one actual value of one life cost. jonathan vasquez has worked this route for in south florida for more than a decade. along with his younger brother wilmer. what is the heat light working on a rooftop? to me is have you ever open up a furnace like the oven? and he felt that he can on not only for like, 2 seconds, but for like 14 hours a day. a lot of is when he touched the tiles, a bunch of hands touch a single say bank to hands and it's assessed measurable in august of 2023. the hardest to be on record. wilmer felt sick after working outside for hours and

started experiencing severe he cramps. then i seen his eyes. it went from brown to white. that was my mom and like he's not coming back from this room or died the next day. it just 29 years old. the only time i've acquired about a was went out the hospital, the doctor let my mom know jesse and my mom's face. to me. i know i went into a deep depression because of it. i don't think no mother should have to bear hit her son. the only thing is worried about his own health moving forward, and without any formal protection, he thinks employers will take advantage of workers add some uh, employers cost some of these people monkeys, you know, like they don't see them as uh, as uh, as humans. or if they're not human, i don't have to treat them like human. they seem as animals moving. their product. reality is here in america's. he's paying bills,

trying to get by every single week. as for salvatore's case, after his death, the federal government investigated the company that hired him like meal labor management, the government investigation, so the employer could have prevented his death by implementing safety rules to protect workers from heat related hazards. in other words, salvatore's death was preventable. the company is contesting government fines. the total roughly $27000.00. we were able to reach the owner of mcneal labor management on his cell phone. hello. he gave us permission to record the call. oh hi. sheila mcneil just mcneil accept responsibility for salvatore's 50 as death facts because like some of the people, nobody's ever the real problems in many, many years. some people are healthy and that's where these really just. yeah,

i mean, he was, he was 26 years old though, and the, the documents that, that we saw from the medical examiner did not list any kind of preexisting condition. the family told us, he did not have a pre existing condition. it seems like he, he's to come to heat stroke. you know, it's possible, like i said, it's something else because nobody else gets sick. you would accept, you know, responsibility for his death. if you find that he didn't have any sort of prior health conditions was a responsibility because you things happen to people getting controls and we did everything. right. you know, i know you're saying you all did everything right. but a man did die here. yes. do you think that there should be protections for workers on the local level or other state wide level even on the federal level? because at the moment there are none. sure. no, there's not any of our with the problem with it all. i'm doing the guidelines. why do you think that other employers do not want these protections passed? just because they to cut their productions?

i hear you saying you, you guys did everything you did, you could do to, to prevent this, definitely happening. but does that mean that a death like salvatore's is inevitable? i don't understand which one hour space is ending at. uh, does that mean that you anticipate that there are more workers that are going to die from the heat? or just your main people to work? the way it gets when you have to get them this year for low. know suppose that echo will thing. they don't think that's a problem and i know enough. so i used to have the 2 of us that out of the easy peasy inside of it all

the way i say that you buy that for me, let me look into this as he put a go michigan. that's what i say. what else? the me, you go up with the no, no, yeah, and or month or no the maybe say go in the portable and when i mean you can record this. maria shared with us her final text messages with her husband the night before. he started his new job in a pony. see, i'm a little sick if this watch those which you guys know. maybe say with windows and what to someone. yeah, i mean, boy, i don't know, mucous guns and last home, the use so sweet a? yes. so where do you want me to test? the

maria filed a workers compensation lawsuit, and she was able to receive a modest settlement for salvatore's family. though his death leaves a gaping hole and their lives, the need to know what the new provider the got them. when i asked for something, i'll have it on the front on the, the, i don't my, what are you in the midst of a whole, we bought the fellows currently. i know the

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