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Feb 26, 2015

STRIKE END * USA: Tentative Contract Agreement Between the PMA and ILWU

* California - Teamsters Port Division responds to

 -- The Teamsters Port Division issued the following statement Friday evening about the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) coming to a tentative agreement after a nine month stalemate... “The truck drivers who haul containers on and off the docks at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are breathing a collective sigh of relief with the news that the ILWU and the PMA have reached a tentative contract. Because the vast majority of port truck drivers are misclassified as independent contractors, every day that the ports are shut down, the drivers have gone further into the financial hole because they are paid by the load, and – even when the port is shut down – the boss has continued to deduct the cost of the truck, insurance, and even parking of the company truck at their own yard from their paychecks. This is wage theft and it is illegal"... According to the Teamsters, a shutdown would have stalled more than 10,000 port truck drivers misclassified as “independent contractors” without pay or “apparent access to unemployment benefits” ... (Photo: Teamsters shut down truckers strike at southern California ports) - Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Long Beach Posts, by ASIA MORRIS -FEBRUARY 23 2015

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