Port strike to expand to four subsidiaries of market leader California Cartage and Chinese-government owned Intermodal Bridge Transport; continues at XPO Logistics Port truck drivers, warehouse workers and allies will be striking according to Justice for Port Truck Drivers. The schedule below. Picketing starting at 6:30 AM at:
  • Intermodal Bridge Trans. (IBT), 1919 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90744
  • California Cartage Warehouse, K&R Transportation, Cal Cartage Express, 2401 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Wilmington, CA 90744
  • CMI, 1501 East Lomita Blvd., Wilmington, CA 90744 (7AM)
  • XPO Cartage, 5800 Shiela St., Commerce, CA 90040
  • XPO Port Service, 18726 S. Laurel Park Rd., Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220
  • XPO San Diego, 10250 Airway Rd., San Diego, CA 92154
Picketing starting at 9:00 AM at LA and Long Beach marine terminals, including:
  • ITS/Line Port Terminal, 1281 Pier G Way, Long Beach, CA 90802
  • LBCT Port Terminal, 1171 Pier F Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
  • Evergreen Port Terminal, 389 Terminal Way, San Pedro, CA 90731
March, rally, and press conference in Long Beach:
  • 2:30 PM at Promenade Square in Downtown Long Beach (corner of First Street and The Promenade North)
  • 3:00 PM march to Long Beach City Hall
  • 4:00 PM press conference at Long Beach City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802
Just for Port Truck Driver claims: American corporations have pushed tens of millions of American truck drivers, warehouse workers, and service sector workers into poverty through greedy subcontracting schemes designed to increase CEO pay. Over the past ten years, CEO pay has increased 997 percent, driven in part by companies subcontracting out work to lower costs. One of the most insidious corporate schemes is to classify employees as “independent contractors.” Corporations illegally misclassify workers as independent contractors to:
  • Lower wages
  • Avoid paying benefits to workers
  • Evade laws providing protections to employees, such as minimum wage, overtime, health and safety, unemployment benefits, or workers’ compensation laws
  • Shift risks and business expenses onto employees, including making employees pay for the companies’ payroll taxes
At the forefront of this effort have been the mostly misclassified 100,000 short haul truck drivers who move containerized cargo on and off the docks of our nation’s seaports and rail yards and have been pushed out of the middle class and into deep poverty. Ground zero of this campaign has been the 12,000 port drivers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where many have called the big rig trucks that carry the containerized freight we rely on “sharecroppers on wheels” because of the debt peonage system created by misclassification.