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TRUCKERS´STRIKE * USA
* California - Truckers plan 2-day strike at LA, Long Beach Ports
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -AP/CBSLA -28 April 2014: -- Truck drivers who haul cargo in and out of the twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach planned to go on a two-day strike beginning Monday that they said was directed not at the busy ports themselves but at the companies that employ drivers... The truckers have previously picketed at the trucking firms, and the group Justice For Port Truckers said it will take the rally to the ports’ cargo terminals Monday... The truckers contend many of the companies wrongly classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees in order to pay them less and deny them protections that employees get under state and federal laws... Industry experts estimate that only 10 percent of truckers are employed by companies, and in recent years, truckers who are classified as independent contractors have filed lawsuits and complaints with state and federal labor agencies to change their status...
* Georgia - Savannah port truckers: 'We are employees'
Savannah,GA,USA -The Savannah Morning News, by Mary Carr Mayle -29 April 2014: -- Dozens of short-haul truck drivers staged a protest Monday morning outside the gates of Garden City Terminal, contending they are being treated unfairly by the trucking companies who hire them to move containers in and out of the port... A study released earlier this year by the National Employment Law Project and other organized labor think tanks concluded that 75,000 truckers at ports across the country are in the same situation and each of them loses more than $5,000 monthly in compensation they would have gotten as employees. The groups say that totals $1.4 billion annually on a national basis... In Georgia, the labor-sponsored study estimates nearly 4,000 of the 6,000 port drivers are misclassified...
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