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Nov 7, 2014

UNION BATTLES vs. TRUCKING Cos. * USA: Teamsters vs. FedEx & Total T.S. - * Denmark: Johansen's

* New Jersey - Teamsters win another FedEx victory, court orders benefits payback in misclass case 

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New Brunswick,N.J.,USA -Overdrive, by Kevin Jones and Jill Dunn -November 04, 2014: -- The Teamsters have scored another victory at FedEx — the labor union’s second overall win at the parcel giant and second within the last month... Drivers at FedEx Freight’s in New Bunswick, N.J. terminal, voted last week to join the Teamsters Local 701, following drivers from the Croydon, Pa. terminal, who voted to join the union Oct. 14... The Teamsters say the votes have already paid off, too, as FedEx Freight raised per-hour pay by 80 cents after the Croydon terminal filed for election. The carrier also ended its driver scorecard practice, the union says, in response to its efforts... After labor organization efforts began the mega carrier said it plans to increase driver pay by $60 million in 2015, among other improvements...

* California -  Truck driver $9,000 in unemployment benefits 

Sacramento,CAL,USA -Overdrive, by Kevin Jones and Jill Dunn -November 04, 2014: -- The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has awarded a Total Transportation Services truck drivers, after a court ruled the driver was misclassified as an independent contractor... The settlement stems from the roughly half-dozen driver strikes that have taken place at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in the last year... A Teamsters affiliated group, Justice for Port Truck Drivers, backed the strikes over what the truckers said were labor law violations... JPTD said shortly before the July strike, carrier TTSI announced it would terminate leasing arrangements with drivers and they would have to provide their own trucks. It would fire truckers who did not sign new independent contractor agreements and withdraw wage theft claims with the DLSE... The terminations were to be effective Aug. 1, but delayed to Sept. 1. On Aug. 29, drivers attempted to meet with the company to sign new leases, but were told to come back Sept. 2... When they returned, TTSI said they would not be required to withdraw their claims. Some signed new lease agreements and were dispatched. While other drivers were waiting to sign, TTSI demanded they withdraw claims, then terminated more than 35 truckers who refused...


* Denmark - Union battle pushing trucking giant to outsource
(Photo from Kim Johansen, who has a penchant for hiring Romanian drivers who then drive the company's Danish-based trucks ) 
Copenhagen,Denmark -The Copenhagen Post, by CW -November 5, 2014: -- One of Denmark's biggest trucking companies, Kim Johansen International Transport, has decided to move large parts of his business abroad after battling the union 3F for a decade... 3F has been pestering Johansen for years because his company hires Romanian drivers via his Lithuanian subsidiary company to drive the company's Danish-based trucks... ”The consequences are that my trucks no longer generate profits for the Danish company,” Johansen told Børsen business newspaper... ”So in the future, revenue will be recorded in the foreign subsidiary companies, and it is also the start of the process in which more and more of the company will be moved abroad.” ... 3F, on the other hand, contends that Johansen's move abroad won't be a major loss for Denmark... Jan Villadsen, a spokesperson for the union's transport department, 3F Transport, argues that unions in whatever nation he moves to will quickly set their sights on Johansen's company in terms of wage-agreements... ”He uses Romanian and Bulgarian wages for work that will be done in northern and western Europe,” Villadsen told Børsen...

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