... I write to you... to call your immediate attention to the labour and human rights violations committed by NFI Industries and its subsidiary, Cal Cartage Express... I call on Rio Tinto to enforce its Supplier Code of Conduct and end its business relationship with NFI Industries...

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) has been part of numerous attempts to raise concerns directly with NFI Industries over the course of several years...

Drivers and warehouse workers have gone on strike seven times over unfair labour practices, filed numerous complaints with California's Department of Labour Standards Enforcement and delivered petitions to NFI Industries management and yet NFI Industries has not taken these concerns seriously. NFI continues to misclassify drivers as independent contractors and therefore has several outstanding complaints by port truck drivers and warehouse workers concerning wage theft, minimum wage violations and even unfair competition laws in California...