Port truck drivers across the country are fighting employee misclassification and organizing for dignity and respect. #ProtectPortDrivers
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Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
🧵The National Labor Relations Act provides fundamental rights to workers to organize and collectively bargain. But the Act explicitly excludes workers who are independent contractors from these rights.
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
‼️ NEWS ‼️ @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom has signed into law @LorenaSGonzalez's #AB701 to end warehouse injuries!
This is a major win for ALL workers seeking dignity on the job and safer warehouse working conditions.
@CalTeamstersPAC
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
THANK YOU @AsmCarrillo for being a champion for worker AND climate justice! @CA_BlueGreen @NRDC @LAANE @PortDriverUnion @RonHerrera_396
My bill AB794 the Climate Jobs & Equity Act aligning @AirResources and @CALWDA to create a real “just transition” for misclassified truck drivers, climate goals and incentives is headed to the Governor. The #GND is possible! Thank you @Teamsters & @CA_BlueGreen! 🌎 🛻
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Teamsters mourn the loss of @AFLCIO President Richard Trumka. "The entire labor movement lost a true champion for working men & women. Richard was a friend, a colleague & my brother in the fight for workers’ rights in America" - Hoffa
Full Statement:
teamster.org/2021/08/teamste… #1u
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Heart of LA stands with our port drivers & communities & we were proud to voice our strong support of #SB338 and #SB700 at today's Assembly Labor & Employment Committee - both passed through unanimously! Onward. @LAANE @OurPortLA @SenMariaEDurazo @SenGonzalez33 @AsmCarrillo
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
On #PrimeDay Amazon workers will be too overworked to protest. That's why allies from 20+ cities are taking action today, culminating in a virtual rally where we will project @Amazon worker messages on Jeff Bezos's 25 bathroom mansion #AmazonHurts
RSVP athenaforall.org/mansion
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
1/5: Amazon relies on exploitative business models that treat workers as disposable. Amazon’s obsession with speed and data-driven technology has turned warehouses into injury factories that ‘burn’ through hundreds of workers, resulting in massive turnover rates. #AmazonHurts
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Want an easy way to support workers & ease their burden? Don’t participate in #AmazonPrimeDay
You can wait until next week for that yoga mat, Bluetooth stereo, and vegetable peeler. I promise.
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
1/ "Amazon claims to be innovative but its strategies of market dominance & labor exploitation are as old as capitalism itself...Amazon workers are uniting to improve their livelihoods & #Teamsters are supporting them because they deserve what we have" salon.com/2021/06/14/amazons… #1u
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Employer misclassification of workers as independent contractors is a longstanding problem affecting millions of workers.
Join our webinar on Thursday at 12pm ET w/ panelists @unionista27 @kjacobs9, moderator @lynn_rhinehart, & more:
Register here: epi.org/event/cracking-down-…
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
#SB62: The #GarmentWorkerProtectionAct passed the CA Assembly Labor Committee! GWC member Magdalena shared her story for the 1st time about the wage theft she's experienced over 14 years as a garment worker. Thank you @Ash_Kalra @LorenaSGonzalez @SenMariaEDurazo @JonesSawyerAD59
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
⏰06.08 is TJX's AGM - Alex Ostrov of the Racine Dominicans challenges $TJX to uphold its vendor code of conduct for subsidiary Universal Logistics which has been consistently misclassifying drivers as 'independent contractors' @PortDriverUnion @SriEvent youtu.be/PDBlkJjAQUM
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Even more demands being placed on Amazon delivery drivers (fast furniture set-up!) We are taking on worker safety in Amazon warehouses with #AB701 but we clearly have more to do in order protect workers against America’s most unsafe employer.
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
AB 794 by @wendycarrillo passes off the Assembly floor. On to the Senate! The bill attaches labor + workforce standards to eligibility for clean vehicle incentive programs in port drayage and short-haul trucking. @PortDriverUnion @LAANE @CA_BlueGreen
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
#AB794 turns California’s clean vehicle $$ into an economic engine for wrkg class comms of color by improving private transpo industry jobs! See floor alert w amends below @OurPortLA @NRDC @UAW @saraflocks @clcv @UCSUSA
Vote yes #CALeg! @AsmCarrillo
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Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
This is why we introduced #AB701 to protect Amazon workers from violations to health & safety regs & demand CalOSHA establish safety standards for warehouse workers. Despite being targeted by the Chamber of Commerce, AB701 got off the Assembly floor and is headed to the Senate!
Amazon, the #2 private employer in the US, is also a leader in another category: how often its warehouse workers are injured. A Post analysis of OSHA data shows higher injury rates than at rival’s warehouses - w/ data mensch @chrisalcantara washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
Amazon workers sustained more than 24,000 serious injuries last year, according to new study by labor-backed group.
"This rate is nearly 80% higher than the serious injury rate for all other employers in the warehousing industry."
thesoc.org/amazon-primed-for…
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
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We are now The Strategic Organizing Center!
The SOC is a democratic coalition of unions which together represent more than 4 million members, united with one goal: building power for America's workers.
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Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
AB 701 just passed the Assembly! This was made possible by the support of everyone who showed up for warehouse workers, physically and digitally - thank you. Now, onward to the CA Senate. Let's keep up the fight! 💪
Woohoo! Our bill to protect warehouse workers from Amazon-type work quotas #AB701 — just passed the Assembly! (Thanks for the meme @laurafriedman43 )
Justice4PortDrivers! retweeted
AB 701: the Warehouse Workers Protection Act will protect the safety and dignity of CA workers.
@assemblydems must step up to protect the lives of warehouse workers.
