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Teamsters Campaign * Canada - Targeting Challenger truckers, owner-ops
Cambridge,Ont,CAN -Today's Trucking -27 Nov 2009: ... Teamsters Canada has launched a campaign to organize group drivers and owner-operators at Challenger Motor Freight, Elgin Motor Freight, and Lodwick Transport... Non-monetary and work organization clauses are said to be at the heart of the dispute, such as "forced dispatch, seniority (issues), and switch (shifts)"... Drivers of the three carriers also allege they have not received a pay increase since 2003... The union drive apparently originated weeks ago at a Quebec terminal. It has since grown into a national campaign, affecting about 1,500 Challenger workers across Canada... In Vancouver, independent drayage haulers were organized by the Teamsters and, as a way to end a six-week work stoppage at the Port of Vancouver in 2005, their carrier companies were ordered by the government to pay them union-style rates and collective surcharges... More recently, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) echoed the CIRB when it applied the same logic for the first time under the Ontario ruling for the purposes of the Labour Relations Act... Criteria that is used to determine who is the "true employer" of a independent worker or agency driver is sometimes quite arbitrary. Issuing uniforms or company mailboxes to contactors; or allowing them to share facilities with company workers and inviting them to company-related functions have all been cited to justify treating lease operators or temporary drivers as employees... (Photo: Precedent points to an uphill battle in keeping Challenger drivers and owner-ops out of Canadian union hands)Labels: teamsters union news
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