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24 Dec 2019

Author:
Nelson L. Castorillo & Paul Michael Neuman, Random Lengths News

USA: Rio Tinto continues to use logistics supplier despite ongoing struggle by port truck drivers over labour rights concerns

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"A Holiday Message in Support of Port Drivers' Fight for Justice", 20 December 2019

... [T]he dedicated truck drivers that haul the heavy containers of borax from the [Rio Tinto] mine in the Mojave Desert to the ports of LA and Long Beach are not even paid minimum wage for every hour worked and the hours can be long and hazardous...

[In September] workers set up picket lines up at the... truck yard in Los Angeles and at the Rio Tinto mine in Boron [while] two drivers — Flavio Acosta and Jesus Maldonado — took their concerns straight to Rio Tinto’s headquarters... to deliver a petition with 5,000 signatures from allies... urg[ing] Rio Tinto to... stop doing business with... [California Cartage Express, a subsidiary of NFI Industries] due to its violation of Rio Tinto’s Supplier Code of Conduct...

Rio Tinto management... [said] they are investigating the issues but didn’t commit to anything... Rio Tinto continues to do business with NFI/CCX and the drivers are still fighting for their rights, at their workplace and in the courts...

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