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Los Angeles/Long Beach port drivers begin strike

The Port of Los Angeles.
The Port of Los Angeles.

Short-haul drivers serving the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex and the port of San Diego began a strike today targeting four companies doing business at those locations.

The firms being targeted by picketers are: Pacific 9 Transportation, with offices in Carson and Long Beach; Harbor Rail Transport, with an office in Rancho Dominguez; Intermodal Bridge Transport, with an office in Long Beach; and Pacer Cartage, with offices in Commerce and San Diego. The truckers did not immediately say how long the job action would last.

The drivers also announced that “11th hour negotiations” had resulted in a “comprehensive labor peace agreement” between the Teamsters union and the Green Fleet Systems drayage firm. Details of that agreement were not disclosed.

About 200 of the estimated 500 drivers associated with the four companies were on the picket lines today, and the job action will expand to cargo terminals later today, a Teamsters union representative said during a conference call announcing the strike at 7 a.m. Pacific time. Some secondary picketing will target specific trucks as they arrive at other locations.

Truck drivers have been fighting drayage firms, which transport goods over short distances, since 2012 over being classified as independent contractors rather than employees entitled to employee rights and protections.

In a statement, drivers said that since a drivers’ strike last November and a subsequent U.S. Labor Department ruling, a major drayage company, Shippers Transport Express, reclassified its independent contractor drivers.

“The Shippers drivers’ victory has inspired other misclassified drivers to escalate their demands to be recognized as employees and end the wage theft. In their fight to hold onto an illegal business model, company owners are continuing to harass, intimidate and coerce drivers,” according to the statement.

“Unwilling to wait for the courts to rule as they did in the Shippers case, the drivers have launched a national petition asking Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia to ban lawbreaking for profits from both ports,” the statement says.

Port of Long Beach CEO Jon Slangerup said the Teamsters union has been conducting “informational picketing” at the port. He stressed that “this is not a strike” and said the actions have not slowed down work at the ports.

“Dockworkers have reported to work and truckers have been able to enter and exit the affected terminals without delay,” he said, adding he does not believe there will be any “adverse impact” to efforts to reduce congestion at the ports.

Slangerup said the port does not “employ or contract with the drivers … but we respect the rights of the drivers to picket.”

He said Harbor and Long Beach police are “monitoring the situation and they are keeping the roadways accessible to all who want to do business at the port.”

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