Picketing Ends at the Port of Long Beach
The eighth period of picketing by port truck drivers in two years ended Friday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced in a release.
The eighth period of picketing by port truck drivers in two years ended Friday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced in a release.
Harbor Trucking Association officials held a news conference outside the Shoreline Yacht Club Wednesday afternoon to announce programs they say will help reduce the shortage of truck drivers in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and help bring in more women to the male-dominated industry.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas on Tuesday to create a plan to implement five areas of action from the County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs Department (DCBA) that help employees, including Long Beach port truck drivers, filing claims for wage theft.
The Harbor Trucking Association, a coalition of Los Angeles and Long Beach intermodal carriers, announced on Friday that it had been copied on more than 70 letters sent by 70 different Southern California trucking companies in the drayage business at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) and various steamship lines to declare force majeure, as defined under the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Agreement (UIIA).