🔥🔥 On the job safety a major issue in SYSCO Negotiations – Strike Deadline Set!!
Sysco has less than one week left to present a fair contract offer to more than 400 drivers and warehouse workers represented by Teamsters Local 853.
👉 Teamster workers are demanding that the multibillion-dollar food service giant address serious safety concerns and deliver wages, benefits, and working conditions that meet or exceed the standards already set by Teamsters at other Bay Area food service companies.
Last week at the negotiating table, they did not take our appeals for safety changes on the job. So we asked some drivers to send us pictures of unsafe loads and conditions, and in just a few days, we already have all of these photos. If you have ever done the job, you know what these photos represent. Dangerous on-the-job situations are happening too frequently.
⏰ So we all wait for the company to get it together and treat the ones who make them successful in a fair and dignified way in the workplace.
“Our drivers and warehouse workers need safety on the job. Daily, they face a whole host of problematic shipments that they are forced to load and deliver, even when they know that some are unsafe,” said Teamster 853 Vice President and Business Agent Ray Torres. “There must be a change in the contract language to empower these workers to have authority over their own safety.”
Across the West Coast, over 1,000 other Sysco Teamsters – including members of Local 137 in Sacramento, Local 162 in Portland, and Local 533 in Reno – are also approaching contract deadlines. If Sysco fails to reach an agreement with its workers, the company could soon face a major labor dispute.
