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A 57-year-old UPS driver in Texas died after collapsing in the heat while making deliveries (www.msn.com)
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Following months of negotiations with Teamsters, UPS announced in June that it would install air conditioning in new trucks starting next year. The company said it would send new trucks to the hottest parts of the country first, if possible. The company also said it would retrofit its existing package cars with cab fans, exhaust heat shields, and cargo area ventilation.

"While these improvements will make a difference in the months and years ahead, we had to fight like hell to secure them," the Teamsters union said in its social media post Thursday. "Chris Begley should still be alive to experience them. All companies, including UPS, need to remember that their past failings to protect workers can have deadly serious consequences in the future."

Chris Bagley should still be alive and it's a damn shame the Teamsters failed to protect him from social murder. Only new trucks? Only next year? They drove trucks without fans, heat shields, and ventilation? What the fuck.

The Teamsters could have, at the very least, demand a total halt on driving trucks without fucking fans. "Oh but that'll cause package delays!" Well I guess we just have to murder drivers for the sake of logistics.

If anyone tells me how great and historic the new contract is one more fucking time I'll fucking lose it.

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[โ€“] AnonTwo@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the things he typed were regarding health and safety. I fail to see how they didn't consider health and safety.

And he's right that it's offputting how heavily you had put your shame on the people who got a lot for the employees, and virtually none of it on the company that fought to stop it.

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago

They didn't consider health and safety as an immediate concern. They considered it as secondary to the company's profits, that's why it's going to take so long to get even basic heat protections like fans and heat shields. There shouldn't have been a phase-in period. They should have grounded the fleet until they at least had some basic protection, if not full air conditioning.

And the company's managers should be in work camps, that goes without saying. Instead, they're in bed with the union.