McDonald's employees protest broken AC unit after one faints due to extreme heat
- Last Updated: 4:44 PM, July 19, 2013
- Posted: 4:41 PM, July 19, 2013
McDonald's workers are protesting a broken air conditioning unit after an employee in Washington Heights fainted this morning due to extreme heat, employees say.
Workers claim they became sick as temperatures soared passed 90 degrees -- and felt more like 107.
"In the middle of a heat wave like this, to be expected to stand in a hot kitchen with no air conditioning, is inhumane and unsafe," said Jamne Izquierdo, a striking McDonald's worker.
"We are human beings -- we can't take it anymore," he said.
Other workers , who gathered outside the restaurant on Broadway and 181st Street, waved signs reading "No AC / No Peace, Respect Your Workers."
Employees say 20-year-old Shelyz Mendez was taken to the hospital around 10:30 am after fainting due to the heat.
They estimated the kitchen temperature climbed to 110 degrees.
Lack of air condition has been a problem at the McDonald's location for more than a year, workers told The Post.
"It's like this every summer. They say they'll fix it, it come on for twenty minutes and then it's back off. We're tired of it. And now someone got a heat stroke. That's why we decided to walk out, " said worker Luisa Villa, 26, of the Bronx.
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