Greg Casar: “Employers refused to give workers the right to a water…”

“I want to give you an example just here from me in the short term, when I was a 20 year old labor Organizer in Texas, we were organizing alongside construction workers, hosting vigils and protests against Employers refused to give workers the right to a water break. The most basic of labor rights people had their family members, their brothers, their sisters, their tios, their grandparents die in the Texas heat on construction sites because they weren't given a water break.” (03:04–03:17)

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