USA: Rio Tinto agrees to investigate after port truck drivers in its supply chain raise labour rights concerns at AGM
"UPDATE: Truck Drivers Who Haul Borax For Rio Tinto To Attend Rio Tinto's AGM", 15 April 2019
U.S.-Based Truck Drivers Who Haul Borax For Rio Tinto Attend UK Annual General Meeting, Demand Enforcement Of Company’s “Supplier Code of Conduct” In U.S. Supply Chain; Rio Tinto Chairman Publicly Agrees To Investigate and Take Action to Enforce Code of Conduct
... On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, a delegation of contract truck drivers who haul borax from the Rio Tinto mines in Boron, CA, to the Port of Los Angeles, together with Teamster leaders, attended the company’s Annual General Meeting in London, England. The drivers, who are employed by Rio Tinto’s contract drayage carrier California Cartage Express, a division of NFI Industries, attended the meeting with Teamster officials to demand an end to wage theft due to their misclassification as independent contractors (rather than employees) and enforcement of the Rio Tinto’s Supplier Code of Conduct in their U.S. supply chain...