From Grim Truth at Toll Group:
Amidst jubilant chants of “Yes We Did!” in Spanish and English, a brave group of professional truck drivers who haul brand-name fashion imports celebrated late evening news that they trounced in their closely-watched election to unite as Teamsters, despite their foreign employer’s vicious and expensive year-long campaign to intimidate workplace leaders and suppress their free choice.
The results were 46 – 15 in favor of the union, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced.
Toll Group is an iconic brand Down Under but the Melbourne-based trucking and logistics carrier has saturated that market and must expand in the U.S. to survive. The $8.8 billion giant freely negotiates with and benefits from its unionized Australian workforce.
The company’s horrible working conditions also prompted the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) to step in condemning Toll’s facilities in the US for undermining workers’ rights in such a severe and denigrating way and calling for worldwide solidarity measures to be initiated.”