Serial Sexual Abuse Allegedly Tolerated at B.C. Fed-Ex Warehouse

Workers, unions, and community members protested outside a FedEx depot in Delta, B.C., whose management has allegedly enabled the sexual harassment of its female employees for years. After news broke that videos of women taken in the workplace washroom were found on pornographic websites, FedEx allegedly offered hush money to the victims instead of dealing with the predatory employee.

The complaints were related to a male coworker, “Frank,” repeatedly entering the women’s bathroom at the FedEx Tilbury Depot in Delta, B.C. Workers say FedEx management dismissed reports from women for two years, each time stating that the employee “had merely gotten confused,” “used the bathroom since the men’s was full,” or was “mental,” instead of investigating the incidents or the employee further. Workers claim that he “comes half an hour early before the shift(s) and leaves half an hour later… that’s when he was obviously putting in the cameras.”

It was only after workers reached out to The Kaur Movement, a charity dedicated to supporting individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and gender-based violence, that action was taken.

Gurpreet Kaur, founding director of The Kaur Movement, told The North Star that the victims were discouraged from speaking out about the situation. Management threatened to terminate workers if they were to protest, telling workers their main focus should be getting the videos removed rather than speaking up about the incident. Management’s only compensation to the victims was reportedly through swiping their cards/signing in to be paid with pretend hours, instead of a payment coupled with an acknowledgement of guilt or an apology.

“The guy was able to install cameras for more than a year,” said a concerned female worker at the Tilbury location. “How was he able to get away with it for that long? There has to be a fundamental system failure here.”

Not an isolated incident

A 2021 report from the Government of Canada revealed that 47% of the women in trades, transportation, equipment operation, and related occupations had personal experiences of inappropriate sexualized behaviours in the workplace. On top of that, 32% of women workers reported that their employers had not provided them with information on how to report sexual harassment or sexual assault.

“This was all preventable,” says Ms. Kaur. “If there was a union and union rep, [workers] wouldn’t be talking to [management] alone.” Statistics Canada reports that only 37.2% of women in the Transportation and Warehousing Industry are unionized as of 2025.

The Delta Police report stated that “an employee has been arrested and subsequently released.” FedEx has also reportedly been silent on the updates of the investigation, with no information given on the status of the employee, investigation, or plans for improved safety measures.

The lack of communication has created confusion and anxiety for the workers still present at the depot, who remain unsure if the employee can enter the premises or not or whether they are still employed with the company.

“I feel like they didn’t even take accountability,” observed a frustrated worker at the protest. “They didn’t say, oh, we’re sorry that this happened. They just said, ‘Okay, we need the operations to keep going, so let’s replace these people that are not coming to work.’”