* California - Port trucking company ordered to Court over unfair labor practices
-- In what's being called a historic case, the Los Angeles office of the National Labor Relations Board is looking into whether port trucking company Intermodal Bridge Transport engaged in unfair labor practices toward its drivers by misclassifying employees as independent contractors... The NLRB filed the complaint based on charges by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union. The Teamsters also charged IBT with threatening and coercing drivers who participated in union-organized strikes... According to court documents, on two separate occasions drivers were interrogated by a supervisor at IBT about their support for the Teamsters union. The supervisor promised drivers more work to get them to stop union activities and later resorted to threatening them with unspecified consequences if they continued to support the union. The supervisor also threatened to close the facility if the Teamsters succeeded, according to the union... The driver misclassification issue is an ongoing one at Southern California ports, with several driver strikes occurring in the past few years affecting multiple trucking companies. Last year, the Los Angeles City Council called on port trucking companies to provide drivers with proper wages and benefits and comply with labor laws...
(Photo via Teamsters Union) -- Los Angeles, CAL, USA - TruckingInfo, by Steven Martinez - April 26, 2016Labels: truckers classification, trucking industry news USA
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