>Forward from mart > From: The Infamous Vinnie Gangbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 05:43:24 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [gangbox] Fwd: PORT TRUCKERS MARCH IN >PORTS OF OAKLAND AND LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA >******************************************************************** > > OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL >BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, >WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, >AFL-CIO/CLC: > > Port Drivers Convoy In Oakland Protest Long Hours, Low Pay, >Fuel Cost >September 26, 2000 >************************************************************************** > > (Oakland, CA) �*� Members of Teamsters Local Union 70 and >port truckers formed a demonstration convoy today at the Port of >Oakland marine terminal to protest worker abuses. > > The drivers, who haul hundreds of thousands of containers each >year from the port of Oakland, began the convoy during the Oakland >terminalsopening and continued the demonstration throughout the >morning. > >High fuel prices, low pay and chaotic marine terminal operations >aredriving America's immigrant port drivers to despair, said Chuck >Mack,Teamsters Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer of Local >Union 70. The Oakland convoy coincided with similar protests today >in Long Beach and a dozen other ports from coast to coast on October 4. > >Marine Terminal Services and other port operators around the >countryhave a responsibility to conduct business in a more >professional and equitable manner that better protects and benefits >independent port truckers. > >Our convoys through the Port of Oakland will last longer and our >numbers will grow the more port operators treat these workers >unfairly, Mack continued. These unfair work conditions cannot >continue. > >Teamsters Local Union 70 represents more than 5,000 working >men and women in Alameda County. > > >Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >©1997-2000 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters > 25 Louisiana Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 >(202) 624-6800 >©1997-2000 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters >********************************************************************* > > TEAMSTERS RALLY AT LONG BEACH PORT IN SUPPORT OF INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS >September 27, 2000 > > Port Drivers Continue Nationwide Fight for Worker Rights(Long Beach, CA) - >Teamsters Joint Council 42 and the Teamsters Port > Division rallied today in front of the Port of Long Beach Administration >Building >to protest working conditions for independent truckers. >"These drivers work long hours under difficult conditions for very low >wages," said Jim Santangelo, Teamsters International Vice President and >President of Joint Council 42. "Daily, they are subjected to unfair > treatment that results in a kind of indentured servitude." > >The Port of Long Beach has supported work practices that force >owner-operators to: Work countless hours without compensation; > >Haul unsafe company equipment; > > Experience extended unpaid delays both in and out of the terminal. >"The Port of Long Beach is projected to handle at least 12.4 million >containers of cargo a year by 2010, up from 8.1 million in 1999," >Santangelo said. "It is imperative for our economy that independent >truckersconcerns be addressed to safeguard that growth." > >Teamsters Joint Council 42 represents more than >140,000 working men andwomen in Southern California > and Nevada. >************************************************** > Send your comments to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >©1997-2000 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters > 25 Louisiana Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 > (202) 624-6800 > >©1997-2000 The International Brotherhood of Teamsters >******************************************************************** > > GANGBOX: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS NEWS SERVICE > GANGBOX homepage: >http://www.GeoCities.com/gangbox/ > comments? email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >"UNION NOW, UNION FOREVER" >**************************************************** >To Post a message, send it to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To subscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >*********************************************** > > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eLerts >It's Easy. 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