Posted on 09/16/2009 10:54:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama gave a corker of a campaign speech yesterday at the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, promising to deliver on his promise to ease the rules for union organizing. If you want to know what this means in action, consider the current Teamsters play to control California ports.
The dispute concerns the Clean Truck Program announced in 2007 by the Port of Los Angeles to ban the dirtiest trucks from carrying port cargo. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a former union organizer, seized on the program as an opportunity to help his Teamster friends. Current law doesn't let the Teamsters organize independent truckers, some 17,000 of whom serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. So the mayor and his port authority pals wrote into their clean-truck rule a "concession program" banning harbor truck companies from contracting with independent drivers. The port would only allow "employee drivers," all of whom would be eligible for Teamster membership.
The American Trucking Association sued to block the rule, and with good cause. Federal law has long pre-empted state and local regulation of interstate trucking "prices, routes and services," for the reason that international and interstate trade depend on uniform regulation. The courts have recognized this, and even the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the new port rule had likely violated the Constitution's Commerce Clause, which led to a court injunction earlier this year. Trial on the merits of the rule has been set for next year.
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Bummer promised to keep a promise. I’m swooning.
Latest thuggery update...
Look at the bright side, it’s getting pretty bad when he has to preach to his own choir.
Our California environment will be so pristine as soon as everyone is working for the Gubmint /s
The fact that Tony Villa, the UCLA thug in charge of La Raza at the school was elected Mayor of Los Angeles tells me all I need to know about how badly this country is infiltrated by illegal intruders.
and it was done without a shot being fired except for the killings over drug territory and it’s coming to a area near you...
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