DeJoy's family company was sued over shocking racism, sexual assault, wage theft, and more

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Part of Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's credentials for handling a government agency as large and spread-out as the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is his creation of New Breed Logistics, a family shipping company that would eventually become a 9,000 employee operation and be sold off for $615 million, enough money that DeJoy could become a major Republican donor. That's not the primary credential DeJoy has, of course; DeJoy's primary qualification for a role in Trump's hyper-corrupt basket of grifters is that DeJoy is heavily invested in shipping companies that are not the USPS, and therefore stands to make a serious chunk of change if he can either redirect a larger chunk of the nation's mail to those companies or, alternatively, sabotage the constitutionally-mandated USPS severely enough to cause those redirections to become nonoptional.

But DeJoy's business credentials may also be taking a hit as well, after new scrutiny. VICE did some compiling of past lawsuits and found that DeJoy's "family" company, New Breed, was in many cases a rather gross and sketchy place to work. New Breed was the subject of lawsuits relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism, wage theft, and union busting.

Some of the behavior described in the lawsuits is appalling stuff—as is, in each case, New Breed's eagerness to fire those who made the complaints. It's the union-busting that's probably the most relevant to DeJoy's new position; in 1997, the National Labor Relations Board determined that DeJoy and company took extreme efforts to hide job opportunities from union workers after taking over the Compton Army Terminal in California—and yes, DeJoy himself was making those decisions.

But the severity of the complaints against New Breed are ... illuminating. This was not a company with a firm handle on how to, say, make it clear that employees were not allowed to burn swastikas onto the tools used by their Black coworkers. Which may tell us only that the company head, DeJoy, has always been a standard-issue Republican, or may tell us something more.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/20/1970692/-DeJoy-s-family-company-was-sued-over-shocking-racism-sexual-assault-wage-theft-and-more?detail=emaildkre

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3zkwy/usps-postmaster-dejoy-business-new-breed-harassment-racism-abuse
Postmaster DeJoy’s First Company Was Plagued By Claims of Racism, Harassment, and Abuse
Louis DeJoy spent 30 years as the CEO of New Breed, where, he says, he built the business skills needed to save the post office. Employment lawsuits show the company was repeatedly accused of racist and sexist harassment and wage theft.
by Anna Merlan, Laura Wagner, Tim Marchman
August 19, 2020, 2:30pm

The swastikas started to appear in 2006, according to the lawsuit, soon after the man’s co-worker called him a “nigger” and “mayate,” a Spanish slang term for the same word. First, a swastika made out of magnets near his work station; then, one burned into a tool he used every day.

By 2009, Sterling Davis was suing the employer where he’d been, he claimed, subjected to racialized harassment and intimidation: New Breed Logistics, a supply chain and distribution company with warehouses across the United States, and its headquarters in North Carolina. Its CEO was Louis DeJoy, currently the Postmaster General.

While DeJoy has touted his 30 years at New Breed as a business success story, employment lawsuits brought by Davis and a multitude of other workers at New Breed paint a troubling picture of the workplace culture there. Davis, who is Black and worked at New Breed as a repair technician, said in court filings that he was subjected to relentless abuse from a co-worker, while their joint supervisor did nothing.

“I’m not your babysitter,” Davis alleged the supervisor said to him and the man who was harassing him, after seeing the magnet swastika. “You need to work your problems out.” At a shop meeting, both men and their coworkers were told to “shape up,” and that the workplace “was not the place for that kind of thing.” The two men were jointly admonished to “get along.”

[CaptYossarian]

2. This reads like a resume submitted to Trump.

No wonder he got the gig.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Absolutely, it seems like these people get hired if they're on the FBI's most 10 wanted crooks.

It simply boggles the mind that in one administration alone, that so many have been involved in under the table and other crooked schemes. I guess the saying that it takes one to know one, is true.

[CaptYossarian]

7. We need to stack up the numbers vs. the Nixon and Reagan administrations.

What was the name of their party?

[lagomorph777]

3. A big DeJerk running a DeJunky company.

[SharonClark]

4. "rather gross and sketchy"

Like everything Trump is involved in.

[NCjack]

6. Good quals and experience for a Republican being hired as Post Master.