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Jul 6, 2016

TRUCKERS STRIKE * Colombia

* Bogota - Truck-driver strike in Colombia continues, riots reported

--- Several disturbances were reported due to road blockages in different parts of the country as the truck-driver strike in Colombia continued today... The strike, which has brought cargo transport to a halt for 25 days, has led to the Transportation Ministry announcing, first thing in the morning, that the Government had lifted restrictions on cargo vehicles moving during the holiday that will last until Monday... Transportation Minister Jorge Eduardo Rojas said that the measure would allow vehicle movement along the main roads in Colombia, without any difficulty, during the truck-driver-strike... Rojas recognized the most important areas that are still disputed are the economic conditions that set the value of freight and delimitation of some routes... Yesterday, trucks drivers clashed with the Police Mobile Riot Squad on the Duitama-Tunja road, in the sector of Higueras. Media outlets said the number of people wounded during the riot was still to be determined... Cargo Truck Drivers' union leader, Freddy Alvarado, clarified that the strike was continuing peacefully, but when they were about to stop a heavy truck that was passing, riot forces attacked the strikers... 
Bogota, Colombia - Prensa Latina - Jul 1, 2016

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May 31, 2016

INDEFINITE STRIKE * India: By tankers trucks owners

* Telangana - VAT on transportation brings trucks and tankers to a halt in 
--- As many as 3,000 trucks carrying petroleum products were off the roads on Monday following an indefinite strike in protest against the imposition of 14.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on transportation charges... Telangana State Petroleum Tank Trucks Owners Association president, K Rajashekhar Reddy, rued that no state in the country has imposed such tax on petroleum goods transportation ... "All 3,000 tankers and trucks are participating in the indefinite strike until the tax is rolled back," Reddy said... Commercial Taxes department officials have held talks with oil marketing company officials in the last two days... On Sunday the officials held futile discussions with truck/tanker owners... Many petrol bunks here witnessed panic buying from consumers as they feared shortage of petrol and diesel following the strike... 
(Photo from Reuters - Trucks carrying petroleum products were in strike in protest against the imposition of  VAT on transportation charges) -- Hyderabad, Terangana, India - First Post - 30 May 2016

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Sep 18, 2015

STRIKE * Canada: Drivers haven’t had an increase in pay in a decade and are working longer hours

* Ontario - Container truckers strike for overdue pay raise
-- Participants in a week-old strike by hundreds of Ontario truckers who transport shipping containers hope their action will disrupt the industry enough to get a better deal for drivers... But some shippers warn the fallout, while minimal so far, could grow if the strike continues... The fledgling Container Trucking Association of Ontario says its drivers haven’t had an increase in pay in a decade and are working longer hours... The group isn’t unionized and wants truckers to be classified as skilled workers. It describes itself as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to representing the interests of independent truckers. Chopra said drivers’ operating costs keep rising and they wait longer than ever at rail yards, while their rates of payment haven’t changed in a decade... Some of their members have blocked CP and CN rail yards to delay shipments in and out. They’re also staging their trucks and holding picket lines... 
Toronto, ONT, CAN - The London Free Press, by Debora Van Brenk - September 14, 2015


* Toronto: Truck strike ends after deal struck on wage increases

-- Independent truckers ended a more than week-long protest that ground Toronto area cargo deliveries to a near-halt after they said transport companies agreed to raise their wages... The details of the deal between CTAO members and transport company CEOs were still unclear Wednesday afternoon. The group, which operates as a nonprofit, had asked transport companies recognize independent container truck drivers as “skilled workers,” a classification that would allow them to unionize — something not mentioned in any statements or posts made by the group... 
(Photo: Trucks sit idle as a part of the strike) -- Toronto, ONT, CAN - JOC, by Reynolds Hutchins - Sep 16, 2015

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Apr 6, 2015

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * India

* Kerala - Prices to go up if trucker strike continues
-- The ongoing strike by truck operators has not hit the markets in the State so far but if it continues it will lead to an increase in price of goods that are transported into the State from Tamil Nadu namely vegetables, rice, flowers, eggs, and chicken... The spiraling demand during Easter-Vishu season had led to a slight increase in price of these goods especially that of meat. There has been an increase of Rs 10 for one kg of dressed chicken which is at present selling at Rs 170 in the State... The traders say that markets have not being affected by the lorry strike though they fear that the situation will change if the strike continues. In wake of the strike, none of the traders have brought vegetable and other goods in bulk and stored them...
(Photo: Lorry strike continues all over India) -- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - Manorama On Line - 4 April 2015

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Apr 1, 2015

TRUCKERS STRIKE * India - AIMTC, announcing that no trucks would cross the inter-state border

* Tamil Nadu - Cargo traffic to Kerala to be hit as truckers plan strike

   --  While members of All India Motor Transport Council (AIMTC) are keen on preventing vehicles from entering Kerala from April 1, the president of Tamil Nadu Truck Owners' Association said he would not support the strike. Kerala commercial tax commissioner G Krishnakumar has called for a meeting in Trivandrum on March 31 with the lorry owners' associations hoping to resolve the issue. The AIMTC members stationed at Walayar said they have stuck posters at Walayar check post announcing that no trucks would cross the inter-state border to protest against the alleged highhandedness of check post personnel... K Nallathambi, president, Tamil Nadu State Lorry Owners' Federation said that based on decisions made in New Delhi, lorry owners will not function in Tamil Nadu... AIMTC members would hold a press conference at Walayar on March 31 announcing the indefinite strike... Their demands also include setting up of a scanning centre and a secured parking lot with basic amenities...
(Photo: Trucks stranded on either side of the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border at Punajanur) -- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India - The Times of India - Mar 31, 2015

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Nov 21, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * USA: Los Angelesd & Long Beach Ports

* California - Strike by port truck drivers expands to comprise six companies

(Photo by JEFF GRITCHEN - Teamsters Reyes Magana, right, and Fausto Castillo, behind him, join a picket at the entrance to Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) in the Port of Long Beach on Monday. Los Angeles and Long Beach truck drivers are conducting a 48-hour strike for fair and lawful treatment against the Ports of LA/Long Beach terminals)
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Orange County Register, by HANNAH MADANS -Nov. 18, 2014: -- Port truck drivers on Tuesday expanded their strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to include two new companies. That brings to six the companies that are targets of the strike. The strike is exacerbating congestion at the ports, which is already high due to a lack of truck chassis and rising trade volume from the improving economy... Drivers from QTS Inc., LACA Express and WinWin Logistics Inc. went on strike Monday, and drivers from Pacer and Harbor Rail Transport struck on Tuesday... Port truck drivers want to be classified as employees and not independent contractors. As employees, they would be able to form a union and receive workplace protections...

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Nov 11, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * USA:

* California - Port truck drivers threaten strikes again if retaliation persists

(Photo: Trucks wait to enter the Port of Long Beach) 
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Patch Staff, by Mirna Alfonso -November 7, 2014: -- Port truck drivers urged the Harbor Commission Friday to take steps against companies they allege have been misclassifying them as independent contractors, stealing wages and firing dozens of workers in retaliation, while the Port of Los Angeles’ top official promised that solutions are on the way... Truck drivers told Harbor Commissioners they were ready to begin striking again, saying they have been retaliated against by their employers even after they stopped picketing this summer at the request of Mayor Eric Garcetti... Amilcar Cardona was fired by Green Fleet Systems, which had been employing him as an independent contractor. He returned to work today -- as an employee, this time -- thanks to a court injunction, but he said the mistreatment continues and demanded the mayor and harbor officials take action... “I wanted you to be aware that very soon we will go on strike,” he said. “I am asking, please do something, because the court has already decided I am an employee ” ... Representatives for the trucking companies were not immediately available for comment...

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Nov 3, 2014

TRUCKERS' MEETING * Canada

* B.C. - Truckers to hold mass meeting to discuss new licensing rules

(Photo by Credits: CARMINE MARINELLI/VANCOUVER 24 HOURS/QMI AGENCY: Vancouver truckers association on strike at port Vancouver) 
Vancouver,BC,CAN -Sun News -November 1st, 2014: -- B.C. truckers to hold mass meeting to discuss new licensing rules... Metro Vancouver's container truck drivers will meet in Surrey Sunday to discuss new laws introduced by the B.C. government to bring stability to their industry... Truckers shut down Port Metro Vancouver for nearly four weeks in March over complaints about long wait times and low rates... They agreed to return to the job after a Joint Action Plan was negotiated by the federal government, the provincial government, truck drivers, and Port Metro Vancouver...

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Aug 26, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * China: Ningbo's

* Shanghai - Missed sailings loom as Ningbo port trucker strike escalates


(Photo: Trucks at a standstill at Ningbo’s Beilun Container Port. A massive strike by as many as 10,000 truck drivers at Ningbo’s Beilun Container Port erupted into violence on August 20, as protestors clashed with riot police and smashed the windshields of trucks crossing the picket line, according to China Labour Bulletin)
Ningbo,SH,China -JOC (USA), by Greg Knowler -Aug 22, 2014: -- The Ningbo container truck driver strike escalated on Friday, with trucks clogging the terminal gates and forwarders warning customers to expect missed sailings and a shortage of boxes... Violence again erupted at the port on Friday and the Ningbo government introduced a complete news blackout. Shipments through the busy international container port are facing severe delays and carriers are reportedly diverting vessel calls to Shanghai while shippers truck containers from Ningbo... The drayage drivers, dissatisfied with haulage rates they could earn at the port, launched a protest earlier in the week, bringing the port to a standstill. The labor action comes in the midst of peak season, when ships headed to the U.S. are full and reports were proliferating of cargo booked at lower freight rates being left behind, or rolled, to subsequent sailings... DB Schenker’s Joerg Hoppe, director and head of ocean freight for north and central China, said the news blackout meant official or independently verified information was hard to come by...

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Aug 23, 2014

TRUCKERS STRIKES * USA: Port truck drivers draw a line in the sand

* California - It’s not fair for employers to pretend that their workers are independent contractors 

(Photo by David McNew/Getty: Shipping container trucks sit in traffic at the seaport, in Long Beach, Calif) 
Sacramento,CAL,USA - fairborndailyherald, by Richard Kirsch -August 21. 2014: ... According to a report from the National Employment Law Project, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Change to Win Strategic Organizing Center: ... Imagine your boss suddenly told you that from now on you were going to be considered an independent contractor. You’d have to pay for your office space, supplies, and equipment. Your employer would deduct those expenses from your paycheck. And you’d have to pay all your payroll taxes, including your employer’s share. You’d also be responsible for doing whatever work your boss gave you, no matter how long it took, with no extra pay... That’s the situation most of the nation’s port truck drivers are in.... The companies that hire two-thirds of port drivers deduct the cost of buying and maintaining their trucks from their paychecks. The drivers have to pay for fuel and take care of all the payroll taxes. They get no benefits, no workers’ compensation coverage or unemployment insurance, and they earn much less money than their officially employed counterparts... Instead, the drivers get a fixed amount of money, no matter how long it takes to pick up goods at the port and deliver them to warehouse distribution centers. Even though the drivers are only allowed to work for one company, that one company illegally treats them as independent contractors instead of employees... In early July, 120 port drivers in Southern California went on a five-day strike... The strike, backed by the Teamsters union, is part of a new national effort to force employers to comply with the law. Drivers have filed more than 400 claims against companies under California’s wage and hour laws. The first 19 rulings resulted in an average award of $66,240, largely for wage and hour violations and illegal paycheck deductions for items like truck leases...

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Jul 24, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE * Canada: Port Metro Vancouver

* British Columbia - Drayage sector warns of strike at Port Metro Vancouver


(Photo by Herb Ramos/CTV: Hundreds of truckers gather for a strike at pullout near Highway 91 in Delta to protest what they say are long wait times at Port Metro Vancouver. On Feb 2014) 
Vancouver,BC,Canada -JOC.com, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jul 22, 2014: -- The union representing about 400 harbor truck drivers at Port Metro Vancouver has given Canadian officials until July 30 to enforce government-mandated pay rates for drivers, or face another possible trucker strike at Canada’s largest port... McGarrigle met Monday to discuss what he termed trucking companies’ widespread violation of the new trucking rates announced in March by federal mediator Vince Ready. Representatives of the more than 1,000 non-unionized drivers in Vancouver were also at the meeting... The rates negotiated by Ready increased driver wages by 12 percent and doubled the fuel surcharge, which trucking companies must pass along to the drivers. It was negotiation of those rate increases that convinced both unionized and non-unionized drivers to call off a month-long strike that had crippled the Pacific Coast port... However, more than three months later, many harbor trucking companies are still not adhering to the rate increases, McGarrigle said...

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Jul 9, 2014

TRUCKERS' STRIKE* USA: Los Angeles & Long Beach Ports

* California - Port truck drivers picket harbor-area trucking companies

(Photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times: Trucks wait in line to deliver their cargo at the Port of Long Beach in April) 
Port of Long Beach,CAL,USA -Los Angeles Times, by ANDREW KHOURI -7 July 2014: -- Port drivers launch indefinite protest against three harbor-area trucking companies...  More than 120 truck drivers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports walked off the job Monday morning, organizers said, launching an indefinite protest against what they say are widespread workplace violations... The picket lines are the largest demonstration yet against several regional truck companies that haul freight from the nation's largest port complex. Drivers argue they are improperly classified as independent contractors, leaving them with fewer workplace protections and lower pay than if they were company employees, protest organizers said...

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May 29, 2014

TRUCKERS STRIKE * Canada

* Vancouver - Port to pay for wait time

(Photo: Port Metro Vancouver )
Vancouver,BC,CAN -By Go By Truck News -May 26, 2014: -- Nearly two months after container truckers on strike at Port Metro Vancouver returned to work, mediator Vincent Ready has released his recommendations for wait time payments... To that end, Ready provided a formula for wait time payments along with several requirements for the port terminals and trucking companies. Starting May 28, all per trip drivers will be paid for wait time exceeding 90 minutes. The first payment, at 90 minutes, is $50. After that, drivers get paid every 30 minutes. At two hours and two-and-a-half hours, drivers receive $25. For every thirty-minute period exceeding two-and-a-half hours, the drivers receive $20. Ready stipulated that while terminals will send the payments to trucking companies, the companies will be required to pass them on to the effected drivers...

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May 23, 2014

TRUCKERS´STRIKE * Canada

* British Columbia - Mediator releases recommendations for Port Metro Vancouver: "Drivers must be paid for wait times or serious repercussions will occur"

(Photo by: Ric Ernst/The Vancouver Sub: Trucks enter and leave the port of Vancouver at the McGill street entrance Monday. The truckers’ union is not saying where picketing might take place)
Port Metro Vancouver,B.C.,CAN -Truck News, by Carolyn Gruske –May 21, 2014: -- Vincent Ready has released his recommendations in light of the strike by container truck drivers working out of Port Metro Vancouver... Ready was appointed to mediate the situation by the federal and B.C. provincial governments as part of their Joint Action Plan (JAP)... In releasing his recommendations, Ready acknowledged just how complicated the situation is at the port, and how difficult it will be to implement fixes... Ready provided a formula for paying drivers for wait times, and established that the fee must be forwarded to drivers, and not retained by the trucking companies...

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May 16, 2014

TRUCKERS´STRIKE * USA: We’re workers, not ‘contractors’

* California - Port drivers fight for union

(Photo from Militant, by Frank Forrestal - Truck drivers picket near Port of Los Angeles April 28) Wilmington,CAL,USA -Militant, by NORTON SANDLER -May 19, 2014: -- At a “T” on the road in the midst of heavy traffic, a couple dozen truck drivers from Total Transportation Services, Inc. picketed for 48 hours April 28-29, delaying the movement of goods out of the company’s facility at the Port of Los Angeles... They are demanding that they be reclassified as hourly wage workers, instead of being considered as so-called independent contractors... They blocked trucks and other traffic for up to five minutes or more at a time before letting a few trucks pass from each of three directions... Workers from the three companies also set up picket lines at entrances to the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stayed off the job in solidarity for four hours on April 28 at the Long Beach port, before returning to work under an arbitrator’s order...

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May 2, 2014

TRUCKERS´STRIKE * USA

* California - Truckers plan 2-day strike at LA, Long Beach Ports 

(Photo credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images - Cranes sit idle surrounded by shipping containers December 4, 2012 at the Port of Los Angeles in southern California as a strike by port clerical workers enters its second week) 
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -AP/CBSLA -28 April 2014: -- Truck drivers who haul cargo in and out of the twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach planned to go on a two-day strike beginning Monday that they said was directed not at the busy ports themselves but at the companies that employ drivers... The truckers have previously picketed at the trucking firms, and the group Justice For Port Truckers said it will take the rally to the ports’ cargo terminals Monday... The truckers contend many of the companies wrongly classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees in order to pay them less and deny them protections that employees get under state and federal laws... Industry experts estimate that only 10 percent of truckers are employed by companies, and in recent years, truckers who are classified as independent contractors have filed lawsuits and complaints with state and federal labor agencies to change their status...


* Georgia - Savannah port truckers: 'We are employees'

(Photo by Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News - Truckers at the entrance of the Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City Terminal on Ga. Highway 307 are protesting what they call in the injustices in pay for the short haul truck drivers) 
Savannah,GA,USA -The Savannah Morning News, by Mary Carr Mayle -29 April 2014: -- Dozens of short-haul truck drivers staged a protest Monday morning outside the gates of Garden City Terminal, contending they are being treated unfairly by the trucking companies who hire them to move containers in and out of the port... A study released earlier this year by the National Employment Law Project and other organized labor think tanks concluded that 75,000 truckers at ports across the country are in the same situation and each of them loses more than $5,000 monthly in compensation they would have gotten as employees. The groups say that totals $1.4 billion annually on a national basis... In Georgia, the labor-sponsored study estimates nearly 4,000 of the 6,000 port drivers are misclassified...

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Apr 28, 2014

TRUCKERS´ STRIKE * USA: To picket ports of L.A. and Long Beach

* California - Truck drivers at the ports are set to hold a 48-hour strike starting Monday

(Photo by Brian van der Brug, Los Angeles Times / April 8, 2014: Trucks haul loads as containers are unloaded from a ship at the Port of Los Angeles) 
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Times, by Ricardo Lopez -April 26, 2014: -- In their largest demonstration yet, truck drivers who haul cargo in and out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will go on a limited strike Monday to protest what they contend are widespread workplace violations... The truck drivers, from some of the region's largest trucking companies, have accused the companies of illegally misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of as employees. That misclassification results in lower wages and denies them protections that employees get under state and federal labor laws, they contend... Tensions between drivers and the drayage companies have escalated in recent years. Industry experts estimate that only 10% of truckers are directly employed by companies, and truckers who are classified as independent contractors have filed lawsuits and complaints with state and federal labor agencies to change their status... In California, port drivers have filed more than 500 complaints for wage theft related to misclassification, according to the state Department of Industrial Relations...

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