* California - The port truckers have announced that they will escalate picketing early this morning
... Thirty-eight misclassified “independent contractor” port truck drivers – many of whom have been on strike against their employer, Pacific 9 Transportation (six times in the last two years) – are now entering the 10th week of their sixth strike... That strike concluded six weeks of testimony in back-to-back individual hearings before the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, during which drivers claimed more than $6 million in wage theft... This morning, the striking drivers, who will be joined on the picket line by drivers from recently-unionized drayage companies Shippers Transport Express and Eco Flo Transportation, will escalate their picketing beginning at 6 a.m. PST at the company’s truck yard in Carson, CA...
(Photo: Port truck drivers plan sixth strike against company) -- Carson, CAL, USA - Fleet Owner - 14 Sept 2015Labels: truckers' strikes
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