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Federal Transportation Law * USA - Opposition Mounting to Union-backed Change to
Washington,DC,USA -Trailer Body Builders -Mar 22, 2010: -- A California congressman has joined a number of national leadership groups in opposition to a campaign by the Teamsters union and allied politicians to change long-standing federal transportation law... The union is seeking taxpayer-funded help in organizing port drayage truck drivers by banning independent owner-operators from ports. The Teamsters hope to attain this by pushing Congress to change the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA), which prevents state and local jurisdictions from regulating interstate trucking and commerce... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers also oppose any change to the FAAAA... The American Association of Port Authorities also refused to endorse the Port of Los Angeles position on amending the FAAAA... The Clean and Sustainable Transportation Coalition – 31 groups that represent exporters, importers and the logistics industries and service providers that support them – also opposes the union effort to change the FAAAA... (Image from joc.com: Box Moving)* Senate denies “Brown Bailout”; UPS, FedEx Express react
Washington,DC,USA -Fleet Owner, by Brian Straight -March 23, 2010: -- The U.S. Senate on Monday voted 93-0 to advance the FAA Reauthorization Act to fund the FAA through 2011. The bill itself is not unlike the transportation bill that we’re all waiting for Congress to act upon. This bill, though, which focuses on the nation’s airline industry, includes a battle that has been waging for some time between UPS and FedEx Express... The Senate bill, which does not include language reclassifying FedEx Express truck drivers under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act rather than the Railway Labor Act, must still be reconciled with the House of Representative’s version, which does. The change in classification, which FedEx Express dubbed the “Brown Bailout,” would presumably make it easier for FedEx drivers to unionize. UPS, which supports the bill, is heavily unionized already... (Video from YouTube, by Norm50cal - 16 June 2009)
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