Trucking news and briefs for Thursday, July 15, 2021:
Following a years-long battle, workers at XPO Logistics (CCJ Top 250, No. 6) in Miami, Florida, voted unanimously on Saturday, July 10, to ratify the first Teamsters contract at the transportation and logistics giant.
“XPO management said workers in the U.S. would never ratify a contract, but never is now,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President. “I applaud the workers who stood strong and united over the past six years, despite the company’s horrific anti-worker actions and delays.”
The drivers and dockworkers at the former Con-way Freight voted to join Local 769 in December 2014. While thousands of workers at XPO in Europe belong to unions, this is the first ever Teamster contract at the company.
The contract includes “just-cause” protections, a grievance process, successorship language, job protection language and retirement protections, among other improvements.
Self-driving truck technology company TuSimple has partnered with lidar developer AEye to help develop its autonomous technology.
TuSimple is working with Volkswagen’s Traton Group to develop a commercial-ready fully autonomous system for heavy-duty trucks, and is co-developing Level 4 self-driving trucks with Navistar, targeting production in 2024.
