Originally published at: Truck drivers win $52M whistleblower retaliation verdict against Sysco - FreightWaves
A California jury awarded $52 million to truck drivers who said Sysco retaliated against them for reporting safety and labor violations.
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As a driver for sysco I highly doubt that those things went on. I have been in and around yards and they are all about safety and hos. They have had Electronic logs company wide in the US for as long as i can remember. I think the drivers were just â– â– â– â– hurt they had to work longer hrs. I do remember having 1000 case loads a day but heck that made the day go by and man were the checks great now we are lucky to get 800 cases a day. But its trucking yiu have your ups and downs. You just gotta know how to pull your pants up and get to work. As far as the equipment there was a stall on new equipment due to covid but our oldest truck in our yard is a 2022 i believe and our trailers are in pretty good shape as well. Best local job I have ever worked.
My son worked for them, and from what I’ve heard ,I just have to wonder if you were compensated to type what you did. This is a long time coming and just a sliver of what’s coming for them across the Nation.
Quote: “I know it’s scary to stand up and speak out,” she said. “But it’s the only way it’s going to stop.”… That is not what makes people stop. It may be what gets them caught, but certainly not what makes them stop. What makes them stop is removing them from such positions that they abuse. Those managers simply mismanage and are not mature enough to hold such a position. Prioritizing Efficiency over Safety is not Efficient, it is a RISK! They just paid for that risk by getting caught. Like I said, getting caught because of doing something immoral comes down to a lack of good judgement and a lack of ethics. Those managers lacked good judgement and are a risk to the COs bottom line, due to their mismanagement that got the CO to pay for abuse(mismanagement). Now lets look at it from a different point of viwe. Lets say management at a food processing facility do not respect quality control. And they allow unsanitized food to be packed and shipped because it save the Co costs. Then they get invited to eat at a friend of theirs home and it just so happens to be that unsanitized food and they get food poisoning, or their child does. Do you see how small the world is? Where is it that we draw the line to being ignorant and not caring for our own ill judged reasons??? You do not sell yourself, you do not bend to get a promotion or and extra buck. The falw is in the way one thinks and allows themself to behave. We call that undisciplined free will. That is why the next evolutionary move will be to take these companies over. No not even a proxy ■■■■■, that is old school. Simply unite all the laborers upon which that CO depends upon to survive and simply take over the CO. If people UNITE then they can maneuver themselves from laborers to collective entrepreneurs and really get a raise worthwhile. THEN start designing a way to replace yourselves with robotics and AI, rather than having your abusive employers do it to you! You are the backbone of the economy. You simply followed rather than lead. Time you start thinking like a leader. Labor Unions are a thing of the past. You need to pay them to beg for crumbs. The Aquarian age is all about uniting and taking back your power collectively. No more middlemen, no more begging. No more abuse and being pushed around. Are you capable of shifing shoes? You guys(masses) eat the stuff they ship!!! Without you, they have nothing to ship, much less someone to even ship it! The clock is ticking! Time to wake up! Or are you going to wait for them to replace you with the machines you can replace yourselves with? In my humble opinion…