Analysis-Climate change adds workplace costs and hazards

As Texas baked in this summer's record temperatures, local UPS driver Chris Begley started feeling unwell before collapsing at a customer's premises. "Chris Begley should still be alive to experience them," the Teamsters union said in a statement of provisions such as a promise to include air conditioning in new delivery vans from next year and to retrofit existing vehicles. "We train our people to recognize the symptoms of heat stress, and we respond immediately to any request for help," it said.