No federal heat standard exists and lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
Begley’s death is a bitter milestone, the first of many UPS drivers to die of preventable heat exhaustion under the new contract which will continue to leave most drivers without air conditioning.
In the summer of 2022, UPS driver Esteban Chavez Jr. died from what his family maintains was heatstroke suffered while delivering packages in Pasadena. In…
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