L.A. Port Drivers Win Contract
Brian Sumers Daily Breeze January 10, 2013 View the original piece In a development union officials say could change the nature of trucking at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, about 65 drivers have reached contract terms with their employer, likely making them the first truckers at the port complex to win a collective bargaining agreement since Congress deregulated the industry three decades ago. The drivers, who first voted to align with the...
The Top 100 For-Hire Trucking Carriers
Transport Topics January 09, 2013 View the original piece Click here for the Top 100 For-Hire Trucking Carriers of 2012.
Trucking Industry, Allies Push Back Against Hours-of-Service Changes
Timothy Cama Transport Topics December 31, 2012 View the original piece The trucking industry and its allies pushed back against modified hours-of-service rules for drivers, while federal regulators pushed ahead with safety initiatives that ranged from requiring electronic onboard recorders to ensuring that unsafe trucking companies cannot keep operating after being shut down. Just before the year began, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a rule that restricted truck drivers' use of the 34-hour...
The Man Who Could Have Saved Organized Labor
Alex MacGillis The New Republic January 02, 2013 View the original piece It has been a dispiriting year for organized labor. Unions contributed greatly to the reelection of Barack Obama and the Democrats’ retention of the Senate, but were punched in the gut before they could savor the victories. Michigan’s Republican legislature and governor rushed a bill through the lame-duck session, making the birthplace of the United Auto Workers a “right-to-work” state. The move has inspired...
Is Labor Starting to Push Back? East Coast Longshore Strike On Hold
Patrik Jonsson The Christian Science Monitor January 02, 2013 View the original piece Port operators and Eastern longshoremen agreed Friday to avoid a potentially crippling strike set for Sunday at 14 major US ports, at least for now. Negotiators refused to release details of the deal, but labor experts suggest the daring strike threat by dockworkers is indicative of a broader gambit by a besieged labor movement to claw back some power amid a strengthening...
Longshoremen refuse to unload Wal-Mart cargo from Bangladesh
Teamster Nation December 21, 2012 View the original piece Well, they refused for about two hours in Charleston, S.C., today. The ship carried Wal-Mart-bound cargo from the Bangladesh factory that burned last month, killing 112 workers.The Post and Courier reports, Longshoremen refused to unload a ship on Thursday morning for more than an hour in a show of solidarity with workers in Bangladesh who labor in dangerous sweatshops for pennies an hour, a spokesman said. ...
ABF Freight, union to start contract talks
Lisa Hammersly Arkansas Democrat-Gazette December 17, 2012 View the original piece Representatives from ABF Freight System Inc. of Fort Smith and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union are scheduled to sit down Tuesday in a hotel conference room in Kansas City to undertake a high-stakes labor contract negotiations. One of the nation’s largest trucking companies, ABF says the company has to cut labor costs to compete in the marketplace, including with its chief unionized rival,...
Slawson Holds Fundraiser!
Jon Tevlin and Mike Hughlett Star Tribune December 17, 2012 View the original piece A long, salacious report released by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Independent Review Board (IRB) a few weeks ago accused Teamsters Local 120 leaders of some pretty incredible things, including corruption, kick-backs, "sham" deals and missing liquor and sports tickets. Perhaps the most unsettling allegation, however, was that one of the bar managers wanted to hold a fundraiser for a "nonexistent...
UPS Workers' ADA Claims Not Barred by Loss of Grievance
Kevin P. McGowan BNA Daily Labor Report December 14, 2012 View the original piece A union-represented United Parcel Service driver's claim that she was denied light-duty work because of her disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act is not preempted by Section 301 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Dec. 12 (Watts v. United Parcel Serv. Inc., 6th Cir., No. 11-3480, 12/12/12). Reversing a district court's dismissal...
Hours of Service Regs go to Court of Appeals
The Trucker December 14, 2012 View the original piece The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has set March 15, 2013, as the date for oral arguments in the case seeking to overturn the Hours of Service rule scheduled to be implemented July 1, 2013. Both trucking stakeholders, led by the American Trucking Associations, and safety advocacy groups, led by Public Citizen, separately petitioned the court for a review of the new...