{"id":92920,"date":"2026-08-15T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92920"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:19:54","slug":"builders-bakers-and-cheeseburger-makers-the-uk-workers-struggling-in-extreme-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/15\/builders-bakers-and-cheeseburger-makers-the-uk-workers-struggling-in-extreme-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Builders, bakers and cheeseburger-makers: the UK workers struggling in extreme heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/saying-lack-air-conditioning-cabs-1101181406.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"Protest signs against Arriva bus conditions, including &quot;Too Hot To Work Act Now!&quot; and &quot;Official Picket,&quot; on the ground in front of a red Arriva bus.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the sweltering kitchen of the Plimsoll pub in north London, the head chef, Joshua Swinney, has a frozen tea towel wrapped around his neck to combat the heat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/general\/builders-bakers-and-cheeseburger-makers-the-uk-workers-struggling-in-extreme-heat\/ar-AA2a4DNA?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=36185103343f4d72dede0fd12bfc9163&ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 In the sweltering kitchen of the Plimsoll pub in north London, the head chef, Joshua Swinney, has a frozen tea towel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/heat-pub.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92922,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92920\/revisions\/92922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}