From the Chinese Press

Protect sanitation workers

Guangzhou residents have started a campaign to supply drinking water to the city's sanitation workers who have to work for hours under the scorching sun. But sanitation workers have other, more serious, complaints. For example, they say some sanitation companies have prohibited them from wearing straw hats because they "tarnish" the city's image. Such regulations should be banned because they violate workers' rights and interests, says an article in Procuratorial Daily. Excerpts:

Sanitation workers are vulnerable to sunstroke because they have to work under the scorching sun in summer. In fact, some of them have suffered sunstroke and even died.