* Florida - Truck drivers protest along Okeechobee Road, block traffic
--- Truckers lined up along a busy Hialeah Gardens roadway once again, Wednesday afternoon, to protest what they call unfair business practices... Police were forced to shut down Okeechobee Road in Hialeah Gardens as truckers and their families protested. They said they were upset over pay, high fees and government regulations... “The brokers are staying with most of the money,” said Belcys Lopez. “It’s not fair, we’re asking for the government to make regulations for the payment of the miles” ... “We are tired of working for low pay,” said Amarilys Gonzalez, “we’re the one’s who provide your food, your clothes” ...
Hialeah Gardens, FLA, USA - WSVN - JUNE 7, 2016
* New Jersey - Trucking Industry, Unions clash over driver classification in
--- Port trucking companies back an Assembly bill that would make it easier to hire drivers as contractors. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters wants drivers classified as employees... The trucking industry has won a round in an ongoing bout with labor unions over whether truck drivers at the East Coast’s busiest port are employees or independent contractors... The New Jersey Assembly had been considering legislation that would have forced port trucking companies to use mainly employee drivers, and raised penalties for improperly hiring contractors. However, the Assembly’s transportation committee last month merged that bill with an industry-friendly measure that would keep the penalties but broaden the definition of independent drivers to include most port truckers... The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, are leading efforts to organize drivers who haul loads from the docks to nearby rail yards and warehouses at the nation’s ports, including the 7,000 truckers operating at the busy terminals around New York Harbor. Employee classification has emerged as a key front, as most port drivers operate as independent contractors, who cannot be unionized... The union-backed bill endorsed a standard that would classify more drivers as employees, and called for stricter enforcement of wage and benefit violations. For example, drivers who own their trucks would still be employees - and able to unionize - if they drove for companies that specified what time shipments needed to be picked up...
(Photo by BRYAN ANSELM/THE WSJ - Unions want truck drivers that move cargo between docks and rail yards, such as this one at Port Newark, to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors) -- Newark, NJ, USA - The WSJ, by ROBBIE WHELAN - June 8, 2016Labels: strikes and protests, truckers' strikes
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