Remarkableriots Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Quote Independent truckers continued their protest at the Port of Oakland Thursday over California's new gig-worker law, further exacerbating the country's weakened supply chain. At the corner of Maritime and 14th, it's day four of a protest by independent truck drivers over 2019 law AB-5. "If implemented your jobs will be gone as independent workers, you will not have a job unless you work under some company," said Harpreet S. Sandhu, a former Richmond City Councilmember. The 2019 statute is poised to affect some 70,000 California truck drivers- after the recent lifting of a two year legal stay. The drivers at the Port of Oakland are asking for a carveout in the law - which is meant to prevent the abuse and underpayment of independent contractors - that other occupations have received. "I know that none of you are asking that AB5 be taken away, but you are asking that certain amendment should allow you an exemption - exemptions that were given to many other organizations," Sandhu said. The days long protest has effectively ground work to a halt at the Port of Oakland - the ninth busiest port in the world. Larry Gross, the president and founder of Gross Transportation Consulting says if this goes on much longer, there could be a fresh set of supply chain nightmares to deal with. "So you can imagine if there's a stoppage it's kinda like a crimp in a hose and the water is going to back up very quickly. It's not going to take a long time of this type of disruption before it's going to break at least the port of Oakland," he told KPIX5. cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/truckers-continue-protest-at-port-of-oakland-over-new-gig-worker-law/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Usually you indicate the reason in the OP and include some context. I assume strike? Good for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 31 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Usually you indicate the reason in the OP and include some context. I assume strike? Good for them. I don’t think you’ll like the reason why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 1 hour ago, sblfilms said: I don’t think you’ll like the reason why Yeah, this. The union rep in me can’t help but just toss my hands over this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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