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Suit * USA - Trucking Firm Says AG’s Is Teamster Driven
Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Cunningham Report -8 Nov 2008: -- Pac Anchor Transportation - a Long Beach-based drayage company accused by California Attorney General Jerry Brown of misclassifying employees as independent contractors - filed its answer in Superior Court on Wednesday. The company claims that the Attorney General was motivated by "political gain" in an effort to force Pac Anchor to hire employees instead of contracting with owner-operators... Pac Anchor was one of five harbor-area trucking companies and individuals targeted by Brown in a series of lawsuits accusing the companies of misclassifying employees in order to gain a competitive advantage and to cheat the state out of payroll taxes... The company said Brown filed the suit in an attempt to force the company to use employee-drivers "so that the Teamsters (to whom the Attorney General is beholden) can unionize the newly transformed employees and transform them into Teamsters...
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