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To: claudiustg

Do the drivers have union contract?


11 posted on 05/01/2006 4:24:40 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

---Do the drivers have union contract?---

An interesting question:

"Unlike the common vision of a trucker, an old white man wearing a cowboy hat drinking a big gulp full of coffee, most truckers in LA are Latino, some are women, and most speak Spanish. They call themselves troqueros. They work an average of 60- 80 hours a week, and are often forced to drive under dangerous and illegal conditions. Many of them have histories as organizers or radicals in their home countries. And now they are making history organizing in the U.S.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060412084834806

I'll post this as a separate article.


14 posted on 05/01/2006 4:47:29 PM PDT by claudiustg (Build a fence. They won't come.)
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