‘We’re going to see workers die’: extreme heat is key issue in UPS contract talks

Teamsters union members are prepared to hold the largest single-employer strike in US history over heat protections

As a UPS delivery driver in Dallas, Texas, Seth Pacic is intimately familiar with the dangers of extreme heat. After a long day's work through record-breaking temperatures in summer 2011, he found himself dry heaving in the parking lot, incapable of driving home until he spent an hour and a half in the air-conditioned office.

It was one of the worst feelings I've ever had in my entire life," he said. I didn't feel like I fully recovered for a couple of weeks."