Union - USA - Back truckers’ organizing drive!
USA -The Militant -Oct 3, 2005: -- Independent truckers are fellow workers. The fact that they own their rig—basically an expensive tool—does not change that reality. They need a union to defend themselves in face of the long work hours, decreasing real wages, and dangerous conditions imposed by the profit-hungry trucking capitalists... As a growing number of independent truckers in Miami sign up with the Teamsters and demand that the shipping companies register with the union and employ drivers through its hiring hall, the labor movement should extend them solidarity in action...
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