Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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L.A.-Long Beach port truckers end strike at 3 of 4 drayage firms

The L.A.-Long Beach port trucker strike ended at three of the four truck companies that truckers accused of wage theft, dovetailing with the Los Angeles City Council’s vote to ask port employers to adhere to labor laws for drivers.

Truckers for XPO Logistics, Intermodal Bridge Transport and Gold Point Transportation ended their five-day strike Oct. 30. The Teamsters union, which organized the protests, says these companies have misclassified truckers as independent contractors instead of employees.

On Friday the L.A. City Council unanimously passed a resolution asking L.A. and Long Beach drayage companies to comply with labor laws and port stakeholders to try and prevent strikes.

Drivers from Pacific 9 Transportation will continue their strike indefinitely.

On Oct. 30, Amazon warehouse workers employed by California Cartage ended a short strike just as 14 truck drivers filed $3.5 million in wage-and-hour

claims with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Another 19 of these claims are already being processed.

Before last week, truckers had filed 705 wage-and-hour division claims. So far, the DLSE has issued 155 orders, decisions or awards, 113 of which were deemed misclassified, resulting in back wages and penalties.

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