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Lawsuit * USA - Judge Confirms LA Clean-Truck Order
Trucking group to appeal at once, fight employee driver mandate
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Sep 16, 2010: -- Judge Christina A. Snyder issued her order in the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck case, confirming her recent ruling and dissolving the preliminary injunction that has prevented Los Angeles from implementing the employee-driver mandate in its clean-truck plan... The American Trucking Associations, which had requested the injunction against implementation of the clean-truck plan's concession requirements, will file a formal appeal with Judge Snyder... The Port of Los Angeles is drafting a plan for implementing the clean-truck concession requirements, including the employee-driver mandate. ATA opposes all of the concession requirements, but especially the requirement that harbor trucking companies hire drivers as direct employees... Most harbor truck drivers at U.S. container ports are owner-operators. Such independent contractors, by law, can not be organized by labor unions. The Teamsters Union supports the Los Angeles employee-driver mandate as it would open up the harbor to possible unionization by the Teamsters... Under the employee-drive mandate, for example, trucking companies serving Los Angeles would most likely have to begin to transfer the status of the owner-operators to that of direct employees... (Photo from cleanairconversions: Trucks servicing the San Pedro Bay Ports—Los Angeles and Long Beach )
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