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TRUCKERS' ROLE * USA: Converting Driver status / Complaints
* California - Hub Group switches drivers to employee status
* California - Port truck drivers seek support from a city pension board
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Associated Press/The Los Angeles Times, by JAMES RAINEY -9 Sept 2014: -- Port truck drivers want managers for the city's biggest pension system to examine their investment in a trucking company they say illegally fired them when the drivers pressed their claim for back wages... Truckers, say they were fired over wage theft complaints, want to put pressure on the trucking firm... The drivers' appearance before the board for the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System, known as LACERS, was one in a series of protests they plan to make to try to get concessions from Total Transportation Services Inc., which has been locked in a battle with several dozen of its employees... At least 33 drivers said they were fired when they refused to drop claims with the state Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. The agency found that 14 of the drivers were effectively employees of Compton-based Total Transportation, even though they were treated like independent contractors. It also found that excessive payroll deductions and unpaid waiting and break time deprived the workers of nearly $1 million in pay... The drivers and a representative of the Teamster’s union addressed the pension board Tuesday because LACERS has an estimated $8 million invested with Saybrook, a West Los Angeles-based firm that, in turn, is an investor in the trucking firm... The public pension plan has an “investment risk” because the trucking company is a repeat violator of labor relations laws, said Barbara Maynard, spokesperson for the Teamster’s Justice for Port Drivers campaign...
Labels: drivers retention, truckers complaints
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