Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor
Apr 28, 2014 4:22PM EDT
A New Jersey state senator (click here) has introduced an industry-supported bill to clarify port drivers’ status as independent contractors. The bill is a counterpoint to Teamsters-backed legislation seeking to reclassify the drivers as company employees.
There are many, many reasons for independent contractors to form a union of which health and pension benefits are only two. There is also consolidated purchase of fuel, etc.
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By Karen Robes Meeks
Long Beach Press Telegram
CARSON - Port truck drivers won (click here) a National Labor Relations Board settlement with a Carson-based company after allegations surfaced that drivers were threatened and interrogated over union organizing, officials announced Friday.
The settlement, which affects drivers who haul goods from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles for Pacific 9 Transportation Inc., applies to allegations involving the company’s conduct last fall, “including threats to employees to close the business and loss of their jobs if the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were to succeed in its organizational efforts; and interrogating employees about their union sympathies,” according to the agreement by the NLRB....
Apr 28, 2014 4:22PM EDT
A New Jersey state senator (click here) has introduced an industry-supported bill to clarify port drivers’ status as independent contractors. The bill is a counterpoint to Teamsters-backed legislation seeking to reclassify the drivers as company employees.
There are many, many reasons for independent contractors to form a union of which health and pension benefits are only two. There is also consolidated purchase of fuel, etc.
Posted:
By Karen Robes Meeks
Long Beach Press Telegram
CARSON - Port truck drivers won (click here) a National Labor Relations Board settlement with a Carson-based company after allegations surfaced that drivers were threatened and interrogated over union organizing, officials announced Friday.
The settlement, which affects drivers who haul goods from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles for Pacific 9 Transportation Inc., applies to allegations involving the company’s conduct last fall, “including threats to employees to close the business and loss of their jobs if the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were to succeed in its organizational efforts; and interrogating employees about their union sympathies,” according to the agreement by the NLRB....
