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Jul 30, 2015

TRUCKERS' NEWS * USA: Ports' ones, supported by Long Beach Councilwoman, said “modern-day indentured servitude”

* California - Port truckers’ cause receives support from Suja Lowenthal


-- Long Beach Councilwoman, Suja Lowenthal, believes port truckers are working in conditions of “modern-day indentured servitude” ... Lowenthal made her statement Tuesday evening near the conclusion of a Tidelands and Harbor Committee study session focused on port truckers... The ongoing controversy around the harbor is over whether the more than 14,000 truck drivers who move goods between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach should be considered employees or independent contractors. In some cases, the debate has prompted truckers to go on strike... The majority of truckers work on an independent basis. The Teamsters union and other labor groups want drivers to be classified as employees, and thus able to join unions... Five years ago, independent truckers’ median earnings were nearly $29,000, Smith said. That’s lower than $35,000 in median earnings paid to employee drivers, according to her data... Harbor Trucking Association Executive Director, Weston LaBar, was the only person who spoke Tuesday in defense of the independent contractor model, had much different numbers to show...  He said the Harbor Trucking Association’s wage survey shows local employee drivers earn less than their independent counterparts... Independent drivers can earn an average of $2,650 per week, compared to $800 in weekly earnings for employee drivers. Trucking firms, he said, have lately sought to improve compensation plans for drivers who would otherwise be losing out on pay as a result of port congestion limiting the amount of turns that can make from terminals to warehouses...  
(Photo: Movement of goods through Los Angeles' Port)   --  Long Beach, CAL, USA - The Press-Telegram, by Andrew Edwards - 28 July 2015


 * Tennessee - Trucker’s heart attack is compensable

-- A long-haul truck driver’s heart attack arose out of and in the scope of his employment, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled... On Oct. 21, 2011, Curtis Marvel started having chest pains while securing steel coils to the back of his flatbed truck in Rose Bud, Illinois, for Roane Transportation Services L.L.C., court records show. Though Mr. Marvel planned to carry out his scheduled delivery, he had to pull over at a truck stop for help when his chest pains worsened... Paramedics ended up taking him to Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he was diagnosed with a heart attack, records show. He had a stent placed in one of his coronary arteries and spent five days in the hospital... Mr. Marvel learned he lost his job after being discharged, as Rockwood, Tennessee-based Roane Transportation decided he was “medically unable” to drive a truck, according to records. And, determining his injury wasn’t work related, Roane Transportation denied his claim for workers comp benefits... The Circuit Court of Sevier County found that Mr. Marvel’s heart attack arose out of and in the scope of his employment and that, as a result, he was permanently and totally disabled, according to records... On appeal, the Tennessee Supreme Court Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel on Thursday affirmed the circuit court’s decision, ruling in favor or Mr. Marvel... 
Nashville, TENN, USA - Business insurance, by Stephanie Goldberg - 28 July 2015

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