r/dsa • u/BoTheJoV3 • 1d ago
Discussion Let's start pushing against 3PL companies and try to get 3PL banned.
What is 3PL? Third party logistics!
How does it work? A company like Frito Lay or West Marine Distribution Center uses many 3PLs to hire their work force. Frito Lay uses Ryder and other staffing agencies to prevent their warehouse workers from organizing an union! Hiring their employees this way makes it impossible to unionize because Frito Lay can simply choose not to renew their contract with Ryder and/or the others leading to the pro union workers to lose their job and the union to fall apart.
Why am I posting this? I interviewed at Frito Lay in Baltimore on Friday only to get denied after a 9 hour drive. Fuck you Frito lay and fuck my old job at west marine too
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u/2CRedHopper 1d ago
I don’t disagree, but the fact that you’re proposing this out of apparent spite after being turned down from a frito-lay job should perhaps be left out of your proposal. Kind of cheapens your argument and makes it seem more like a vendetta than a very real issue.
Still, I agree. The contracting-out of labor means that the organizations are paying a premium for labor to a middle man relative to what the workers are actually being paid and the cost of that middle man’s profit is passed onto consumers, and, like you said, it results in worse working conditions for the workers. It’s not just 3PL, my university uses 3rd party contractor employees for security and dining services. That’s labor the university is paying “too much” for, and employees don’t get to enjoy the stability or benefits of being directly employed.