“The best I can describe it, is if you go in a porta potty, on a hot day, and you sit in it for 10 hours.”
John,
UPS drivers have suffered from heatstroke, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and even death during heat waves this summer — simply because UPS doesn’t want to incur the expense of providing air conditioning. And heat waves will only become more widespread in the coming years as a consequence of climate change.
One driver interviewed by More Perfect Union offered the following analogy for the cab of a UPS van:
“The best I can describe it, is if you go in a porta potty, on a hot day, and you sit in it for 10 hours.”
UPS is ignoring driver safety just to save $185 per truck — a virtual rounding error for a company that projects $100 million in profits in 2022.
That profit is made on the backs of the drivers who deliver hundreds of packages every day, to our homes and offices. But while their stockholders profit mightily, UPS drivers lack something that Amazon and FedEx drivers already have — air conditioning.
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