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May 16, 2014

TRUCKERS´STRIKE * USA: We’re workers, not ‘contractors’

* California - Port drivers fight for union

(Photo from Militant, by Frank Forrestal - Truck drivers picket near Port of Los Angeles April 28) Wilmington,CAL,USA -Militant, by NORTON SANDLER -May 19, 2014: -- At a “T” on the road in the midst of heavy traffic, a couple dozen truck drivers from Total Transportation Services, Inc. picketed for 48 hours April 28-29, delaying the movement of goods out of the company’s facility at the Port of Los Angeles... They are demanding that they be reclassified as hourly wage workers, instead of being considered as so-called independent contractors... They blocked trucks and other traffic for up to five minutes or more at a time before letting a few trucks pass from each of three directions... Workers from the three companies also set up picket lines at entrances to the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stayed off the job in solidarity for four hours on April 28 at the Long Beach port, before returning to work under an arbitrator’s order...

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