Seems cheaper to install AC.
Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
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#12Seems cheaper to install AC.
In the farm?
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#13Seems cheaper to install AC.
Probably a good argument for the agreement; puts teeth behind worker safety/comfort.
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#14> Under the proposals, employers within the European Union would be legally required to suspend work if temperatures exceeded 30C That's... uh... the entire summer in most of southern Europe? I agree with the general intention, but the thresholds probably need to take into account humidity as well (i.e. be based on wet bulb temperatures), and I don't really see how one can apply a one-size-fits-all policy all the way…
southern europeans have had to deal with the northern cultural view that we're lazy, and modern work culture imported from those countries has virtually ended siesta. well, now it's hot over there too. we can be nice and tell them "see?" or we can be mean and have them live with the consequences of their moral positions. Right now I'm leaning a bit to the later, but it might just be the heat getting to me :P
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#16Vapor compression refrigeration has been mass produced for a century. Add a reversing valve and you have a heat pump. Europe better get started on installs, it’s not going to cool down.
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#17We should implement this in Florida. I wouldn't mind a five month vacation.
I lived in the southern US for a long time. Any office I ever worked in would send everyone home if the AC was broken in the summer.
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#18Seems cheaper to install AC.
Given that the article specifically calls out a construction union and an agricultural union as two of the unions making this request, I don't think that's a realistic solution to the problem.
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#19That's not going to work in the South. Demand adapted buildings, housing, and AC where applicable.
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#20We should implement this in Florida. I wouldn't mind a five month vacation.
Do you have to live & work in un-ac'd buildings?
Cos today in my pokey town, my house is 30°C, my local library 28°C the gym is at least 25°C and the outside 31°C at a dew point of 15°C. Its not Florida but its the UK and there’s no relief.