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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeJoy's family company was sued over shocking racism, sexual assault, wage theft, and more
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/20/1970692/-DeJoy-s-family-company-was-sued-over-shocking-racism-sexual-assault-wage-theft-and-moreBut DeJoy's business credentials may also be taking a hit as well, after new scrutiny. VICE did some compiling of past lawsuits and found that DeJoy's "family" company, New Breed, was in many cases a rather gross and sketchy place to work. New Breed was the subject of lawsuits relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism, wage theft, and union busting.
Some of the behavior described in the lawsuits is appalling stuffas is, in each case, New Breed's eagerness to fire those who made the complaints. It's the union-busting that's probably the most relevant to DeJoy's new position; in 1997, the National Labor Relations Board determined that DeJoy and company took extreme efforts to hide job opportunities from union workers after taking over the Compton Army Terminal in Californiaand yes, DeJoy himself was making those decisions.
But the severity of the complaints against New Breed are ... illuminating. This was not a company with a firm handle on how to, say, make it clear that employees were not allowed to burn swastikas onto the tools used by their Black coworkers. Which may tell us only that the company head, DeJoy, has always been a standard-issue Republican, or may tell us something more.
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Biden's DOJ should appoint a Special Prosecutor for DeJoy. Maybe his profits at the expense of the USPS can be seized by US Govt.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)MontanaMama
(23,319 posts)It talks a little about DeJoys new company, XPO Logistics which becoming more relevant in the shipping world. They are a shady outfit, let me tell you. Big surprise, right?
My family owns a small business that manufactures an artificial rock product that we ship daily all over the US and Canada via UPS, FedEx and truck freight. I am responsible for shipping and can tell you that we have sworn off XPO Logistics due to questionable business practices. They re-class freight at will that results in overcharging for the freight after the fact...theyve done it to us enough times that we wont use them. I talked to a driver for another company...he told me he used to work for XPO and left because he witnessed first hand dock foremen going through trailers and upping the class of the freight (and then the fee) with no supporting documentation. They KNOW that the big companies will just write the check and be done with it. Not me, however. I disputed every one and won those disputes for a while...then my disputes began to go nowhere. It isnt worth my time to fight them so I dont use them.
PatSeg
(47,491 posts)On TV, he sounds like a mafia thug. Evidently that's how he does business as well.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)He's the perfect Trump lackey. Fascist, racist, anti-union, sexist, thief, corrupt... Why, he's right on Trumpy's wheelhouse!
Attention, next AG! DeJoy wants your phone number!