BY MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ
AUGUST 31, 2022
A United Parcel Service (UPS) driver gets into his truck while on his conveyance course on July 30, 2020, in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
"As oppressive intensity waves cleared across the United States this mid year, breaking temperature records and setting millions under heat warnings and alerts," Livia Albeck-Ripka composes at The New York Times, "laborers… have kept on conveying America's bundles for various transporters, frequently in trucks that have no cooling components for drivers. Some UPS laborers have shared photos that show thermometer readings of up to 150 degrees in the backs of their trucks." A stunning number of bundle deliverers and postal workers — to not express anything of homestead laborers, development laborers, distribution center specialists, and so on — have detailed heat-related wounds and diseases, and some have even passed on at work from heat openness. As environmental change aggravates perilous working circumstances for the individuals who are presented to outrageous intensity, laborers, associations, and people in general are requesting serious move be made. In this earnest board episode, we talk with Zakk, Gabriela, and Steve, three UPS bundle deliverers and individuals from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, about the serious risks of working in the intensity and the battle they and their association are pursuing to guarantee better securities for laborers.
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Gabriela's Twitter page
Zakk's Facebook page and Twitter page
Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters site, Facebook page, and Twitter page
Teamsters for a Democratic Union site, Facebook page, and Twitter page
Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times, "UPS Drivers Say 'Merciless' Heat Is Endangering Their Lives"
More Perfect Union, "UPS Drivers Are Dying Of Extreme Heat. The Company Doesn't Care"
Jordan Hart, Business Insider, "'We're Dying Out Here:' After Death of 24-Year-Old UPS Worker in His Truck, Family Members, Other Workers Renew Calls for AC in Trucks, Warehouses"
Working People, "(Unlocked) BONUS EPISODE - A Pivotal Moment for the Teamsters (w/Indigo Olivier)"
Working People, "'We Are Essential,' Pt I (Voices from the Covid-19 Crisis)"
Denise Chow and Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, "The US Could See a New 'Outrageous Heat Belt' by 2053"
Kelly Yamanouchi, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Teamsters Set Stage for Union Contract Battle with UPS"
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In These Times site, Facebook page, and Twitter page
The Real News Network site, YouTube channel, web recording channels, Facebook page, and Twitter page
Included Music (all melodies obtained from the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org): Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song"
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Gabriela: Hello, I'm Gabriela, an UPS Teamster of eight and a half years. I was in bundle for a very long time, conveying out of little bundle conveyance trucks. Furthermore, I was a seasonal worker for three and a half years. Extremely associated with my association in average activity and typical training. Also, better believe it, gratitude for having me.
Zakk: Hi, I am Zakk, and I am talking from the hunting grounds, the exchange trade point and relocation course for the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and Osage Nations, as well as the conventional home, the Caddo Nation, and Wichita clans. Today, 39 ancestral countries abide in the territory of Oklahoma as the aftereffect of pilgrim and provincial arrangements that were intended to acclimatize Native individuals. Also, I bring all that up in light of the fact that I need to recognize, honor, and regard the different people groups who have shaped how I might interpret fortitude, common guide, what they resemble and how we epitomize those qualities amidst battle. Thus, I've been at UPS as a Teamster for around five years. I'm a second era Teamster out of nearby 886 in Oklahoma City.
Steve: Hey, I'm Steve. I'm a neighborhood Teamster out of the Mid-Atlantic. I've been a Teamster for about just shy of nine years. First association work. I just got into more association stuff after the last agreement that was constrained upon UPS, and presently I'm here.
Maximillian Alvarez: All right, well invite everybody to one more episode of Working People, a webcast about the lives, occupations, dreams, and battles of the common today. Carried to you in organization with In These Times magazine and The Real News Network, delivered by Jules Taylor, and made conceivable by the help of audience members like you.
Thus, as you all heard, we have an extremely unique and, to be perfectly honest, very earnest board today. What's more, I'm truly regarded to be joined by Steve, Gabriela, and Zakk, three Teamsters who have worked for, by and large, numerous years in bundle conveyance for UPS.
What's more, this is an episode that we've been needing to do throughout the mid year. Also, people have been requesting that we record an episode on this, since we've all been hearing the reports about heat and the intolerable working circumstances that people like Steve, Gabriela, and Zakk have been going through. Bundle transporters, postal workers in all cases, at UPS, however people are super going through it as the environment emergency deteriorates, as the intensity waves get more blazing. There was only another goddamn report saying that the center passage, the majority of the center of the nation will be encountering intensity of 130 degrees in the following 25 years.