Note: It should be noted that this "union" story is from "Laborunionreport.com" (union website).
See link here (Union blames paperwork):
Yet NPR confirms that there's a lack of drivers: Debates whether the roads are an issue. If it were paperwork, as the union says, there should be drivers waiting at the port. So who is right? (sounds like there's truth to GP's story in a deeper issue at play)
NPR link:
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“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government,” says Col. Valle.
Only private citizens in Puerto Rico paid by companies that are contracted by the government showed up. To me that means no union workers showed up. Am I wrong?
Meanwhile, truck drivers on the U.S. mainland responded to the governor’s earlier call for help delivering relief aid. About 100 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters volunteered their services, said Alex Moore, a spokesman for the union’s Joint Council 16 in New York. The union is still working out with Teamster leaders in Puerto Rico “exactly what skill sets are needed and where,” he said.
Jerry Collette, a 65-year-old former truck driver from the Tampa, Fla., area, was among the volunteers. “When I retired from driving trucks I purposely kept my [commercial driver’s license] active for just this kind of situation,” he said.