Truckers Plan 2-Day Strike At LA, Long Beach Ports

AP) ^ | April 28, 2014 5:19 AM

[BenLurkin]

Truck drivers who haul cargo in and out of the twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach planned to go on a two-day strike beginning Monday that they said was directed not at the busy ports themselves but at the companies that employ drivers.

The truckers have previously picketed at the trucking firms, and the group Justice For Port Truckers said it will take the rally to the ports’ cargo terminals Monday.

The truckers contend many of the companies wrongly classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees in order to pay them less and deny them protections that employees get under state and federal laws.

[Undecided 2012]

Dude when the expanded Panama opens I’ll believe Houston will boom even more. I’m so glad I moved here a decade ago. After last winter in the upper Midwest and New England, I’m sure many others will move here too. We’ve been booming for a while and I can’t see anything but.

[deport]

There's no doubt Houston will continue to grow. Rail, roads and waterways are
big assets to the increased growth from whichever sectors it may come from, imo.

[Undecided 2012]

The biggest concern I have with Texas is we need to out side of and independent of federal spending in this state is we need to focus on water and infrastructure. Granted we are growing like crazy but we are always behind in road expansion.

[nascarnation]

Weren’t there plans to start moving the offloading to Mexico and trucking it up through Texas?

[deport]

Agree that road construction is lagging but I’m not sure that it is any different in
other states in that regard. It seems to me it takes much too long to build a few miles
of roadway even is the ROW is there.

[dragnet2]

Don't worry about it. The illegal alien hiring developers will build 5,000 5-story apartment buildings across the Texas plains and a Muslim owned greedymarts on every corner.

When y'all get totally gridlocked, they'll raise taxes for cho-cho trains and 20,000 city buses, etc.

[zorkon128]

If these truckers are not employed by your company they should not be on your loading dock doing your employees work. If they were injured your insurance company would raise your rates for even allowing it and I’m sure the foreman in charge of that area would get reamed or even fired for allowing it.

[MeganC]

How many other enemies do you have?

Aside from you?

[1rudeboy]

For what it’s worth, there’s an outside chance I may become a Teamster someday. So we can be friends.

[MeganC]

That would be nice. Hopefully we’ll get right-to-work laws passed long before you’re forced to join a union that opposes your core principals.