I want you to know that the issues our supply chain is facing weren’t inevitable, and they’re certainly not because there’s a shortage of men and women willing to be truck drivers. The real shortage is a shortage of good, union jobs that fairly compensate workers and treat us with the dignity and respect we deserve.
Read More784 current and former first-seat port drivers working for XPO Logistics are set to receive nearly $30 million in settlement of their class-action lawsuits alleging that they were willfully misclassified, left unreimbursed for truck costs and received less than minimum wage, after a California federal judge granted preliminary approval of two settlements, one between XPO Cartage and its drivers, and the other between XPO Port Services and its drivers.
Read MoreAnalysis of the government figures of furlough payments revealed that XPO claimed more than £100 million in furlough payments. XPO may also have received millions of pounds in taxpayer-funded business rates relief. Despite claiming millions in furlough payments, XPO last year recorded $16.5 billion in revenue with a record breaking second half of the year. In July 2020, Jacobs received a long term cash award of up to $80 million and an annual bonus of $3.3 million for his handling of the Covid pandemic.
Read MoreThe International Brotherhood of Teamsters, alongside other international unions, are raising concerns about the excessive compensation package of XPO Logistics CEO Bradley Jacobs; With Jacobs in line to receive up to $80 million under a new award, the unions are alerting shareholders and the public of the estimated £100 million the company claimed as pandemic relief in the U.K
Read MoreA global transportation company that received a $2.7 million loan from Connecticut has been cited in federal and California courts for misclassifying workers as independent contractors, potentially leaving them without coverage under wage and hour laws.
Read MoreA report compiled by an international network of unions exposes ruthless worker exploitation at XPO Logistics, the global transportation giant headquartered in Connecticut. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s mistreatment and repression have only gotten worse.
Read MoreLudgero Matias Dos Santos a perdu sa femme, Maria de Fatima Dos Santos, décédée du Covid-19 alors qu’elle continuait de travailler pour son employeur, XPO Logistics. Il accuse l’entreprise d’avoir fait travailler sa femme sans protections et alors qu’il y avait des suspicions de cas positifs sur le site.
Read MoreWorkers speak out: “We cannot let XPO take advantage of public funds and skirt around taxes if they are not going to treat our community and our people with the respect we deserve.”
Read MoreXPO Logistics has long hidden behind the big brands that utilize its shipping and logistics services, such as Amazon, Target, and Walmart, but a report released on Wednesday shines a light on its exploitative labor practices around the world.
Read MoreL’annonce a tétanisé les 230 salariés du transporteur XPO à Fleury-Merogis : une de leur collègue est morte dimanche du coronavirus. 48 ans, deux enfants. Elle travaillait depuis 17 ans sur cette plateforme logistique qui alimente une trentaine de magasins Carrefour. Six a
Read MoreThe borough council confirmed a further 13 staff had tested positive at the site run by XPO Logistics. Some employees, 150 of whom are self-isolating, are now afraid to return to the premises.
Read More“No social distance, no care at all, sick employees kept quiet...We have no PPE. I have no hand sanitizer. I did get some wipes from a customer, thank God," report workers across the U.S.
Read More"Conditions at Asos are scarcely believable - workers we’ve spoken to describe it as a ‘cradle of disease’. It’s absolutely horrifying, a real catalogue of shame. Here, you’ve got people packed on to public transport, a lack of social distancing, thousands of workers going into one warehouse then back to their families.”
Read MoreLa creación de un comité de empresa europeo puede facilitar la interlocución entre la dirección del operador logístico y su plantilla en Europa, a fin de evitar más movilizaciones en el futuro.
Read More“Workers [at XPO Logistics] said conditions could be brutal...a woman actually died of cardiac arrest at the warehouse and managers told them to keep moving boxes as her body lay on the floor,” reported John Oliver.
Read More“You have the right to affordable health care, the right to retirement security, and most of all, the right to get respect for what you do,” said Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro to workers.
Read MoreLos sindicatos estiman que una norma francesa que garantiza el respeto a los derechos humanos de todos los trabajadores podría aplicarse a nivel mundial a través de las operaciones de sus filiales extranjeras.
Read More"The warehouse is closing because management chose to run this place like it’s their personal plantation, rather than running it like it’s a company,” one worker reported.
Read MoreUn informe elaborado conjuntamente por la Federación Internacional de los Trabajadores del Transporte (ITF) y UGT revela “las graves discriminaciones que padecen las mujeres que trabajan en uno de los almacenes de XPO en España”, explican desde ambos sindicatos. El estudio, titulado ‘El bienestar de las mujeres en XPO‘ (descárguelo aquí), analiza el trato que reciben las trabajadoras del almacén de XPO Logistics Alovera II (Guadalajara), donde se manejan mercancías para Amazon.
Read MoreEl sindicato International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), en el que está integrada la central sindical española UGT, ofrecerá próximamente una conferencia de prensa en París en la que procederá a “revelar más pruebas sobre los abusos que sufren los trabajadores y trabajadoras” de XPO Logistics.
Read MoreTrabajadores de Francia, Reino Unido, Bélgica, España y EEUU han denunciado una "cultura empresarial" de abusos de la multinacional XPO Logistics, con más de 89.000 empleados en todo el mundo En EEUU murió una mujer en su puesto de trabajo y una compañera asegura que tuvieron que seguir trabajando "alrededor del cuerpo; no nos merecemos que nos traten así"
Read MoreJesús Abad Pérez es camionero y trabaja para una multinacional de logística con sede en Alovera. “Estoy en un limbo legal”, lamenta Este viernes los trabajadores de la empresa celebran una concentración de apoyo al transportista que servirá también para reivindicar otros “derechos perdidos”
Read MoreLos representantes sindicales de CCOO y UGT de XPO Logistics en sus centros de Guadalajara han acordado concentrarse todos los viernes «para reivindicar la equiparación de sus condiciones laborales con el resto de operadores logísticos de la provincia».
Read MoreAt first glance, XPO Logistics Europe seems to take its social responsibility seriously, but this 2018 case study outlines cases gender bias, including wage theft, discrimination and sexual harassment that plagued their female employees at just one of their warehouses in Spain.
This independent report from 2018 outlines XPO's extreme hostility to its employees’ right to choose a bargaining representative. XPO has a history of extensive, well-orchestrated campaigns by high-level managers to interfere with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board process time and time again, fighting to unlawfully strip away workers' legal rights.
XPO’s failure to properly protect workers from COVID-19 threatened the health and safety of workers, families, and entire U.S. regions to the dangers of this pandemic.
As communities across the country were struggling with hospital, PPE, and testing storages in Spring 2020, these maps show the potential spread of the virus from XPO terminal locations with confirmed cases of COVID-19.
These maps illustrate how daily runs from nationwide facilities sent exposed workers, freight and equipment to destinations across the country.
