McDonald’s employees at two southern Italy branches went on strike after being pressured to work in scorching circumstances with out air-conditioning amid the extreme warmth wave within the area.
About 140 employees hit the picket strains Sunday after McDonald’s employees in Bari and Casamassima fell sick whereas working in boiling-hot kitchens as temperatures soared to 104 levels.
Domenico Ficco, a spokesperson for Filcams CGIL Bari — the union representing the McDonald’s workers — mentioned that staffers even tried to carry transportable air conditioners to work, however the electrical system didn’t maintain up.
Other kitchen employees reportedly requested the branches to shut on what’s being billed as “crimson sizzling” days amid the warmth wave, although their requests went unanswered, Bari Today reported.
CGIL representatives additionally referred to as on authorities businesses — just like the INPS, Italy’s National Institute for Social Security — to intervene.
The Post has reached out to McDonald’s and CGIL for remark.
The warmth wave has been scorching the area since final week, when a 105-degree day eclipsed a document set in August 2007.
Temperatures are anticipated to stay within the triple digits by means of the tip of the month, and Italy’s well being minister Orazio Schillaci has warned residents and guests to drink plenty of water and “go for a food plan primarily based on greens and recent fruit.”
He additionally suggested that “avoiding extreme consumption of fatty meals and alcohol” will assist shield towards heat-induced sickness.
“Special consideration must be paid to essentially the most fragile, aged and kids,” Schillaci added after asserting that there have already been a minimum of two heat-related deaths within the nation so far.
A person believed to be in his 60s died of heat-related sickness after fainting in his bakery close to the northern metropolis of Padua, and a 44-year-old rail employee died in Milan final week from the intense circumstances, in response to The Guardian.
