A 57-year-old UPS driver in Texas died after collapsing in the heat while making deliveries

3 years ago by Lee Duna to c/climate

In their new contract, UPS workers won AC in new vehicles, and the potential to earn $170,000 a year in salary and benefits for full-time drivers.
feck_it 29 points 3 years ago

Texas seems like hell on earth, God.

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thefartographer 19 points 3 years ago

What??? I can't hear you over my two extra air conditioners and 4 fans! Lemme try getting the sweat out from my ears...

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TigrisMorte 4 points 3 years ago

It gets very dangerous during the day in the late Summer. But the problem is that UPS trucks are not air conditioned as that would cost more so f' the workers, just get another one if one of the plebs dies. US labor Law has been owned by corpos for far too long.

Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong.

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Illegal_Prime 1 point 3 years ago

I seem to remember the lack of AC was because the union contract they had said that if you equip any trucks with AC, you have to equip all of them. That may have made it legally dubious to roll out AC installs because there would be a transition period. Fortunately I believe UPS and their union have come to an agreement to fix this, this incident further proves it’s necessity.

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inspired 1 point 3 years ago

Let us know if you come up with a citation. Absent that I've read a bunch of articles regarding this topic and it seems highly implausible so I'm going to assume you're remembering wrong.

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Espiritdescali 13 points 3 years ago path: 0 3013197, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
rubythulhu 11 points 3 years ago

just tell the sun not to mess with your state

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Oha 8 points 3 years ago

Gotta love capitalism

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