Dr. Lucky Tran 
This is a huge victory not only for workers' rights, but for climate justice. One of the main reasons for the strike, which would have been the largest single-employer strike in history, was the lack of protections from heat-related injuries. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/business/economy/ups-teamsters-contract-strike.html
Worth saying that AC is a necessary but imperfect solution (it helps prevent heat stroke but burn fossil fuels). Things like increased pay are a big help because it lessens the pressure to overwork to heat exhaustion.
What we really need to mitigate the impacts of heatwaves on workers are structural policies like a strong Occupational Safety and Health Administration federal workplace heat standard that protects employees from exploitation and overworking as climate change gets worse.
Hobson Lane@luckytran
And often it's load profile often matches the generation timeline of solar panels and other renewables avoiding energy surpluses (negative prices) in high renewable electrical grids such as Germany, N Australia, .... and now, surprisingly, Texas. There have been several days of negative prices over past summers in those markets
And often it's load profile often matches the generation timeline of solar panels and other renewables avoiding energy surpluses (negative prices) in high renewable electrical grids such as Germany, N Australia, .... and now, surprisingly, Texas. There have been several days of negative prices over past summers in those markets