Monitoring

[drayerman3]

Did anyone else notice the 4 Cars sitting at all the intersections around Gate 4 on Thursday April 18? They all had Port Access Stickers on their Windshields and sat at the Intersections from around 11am to 5pm. They were writing down our License Plates. I wonder what new Garbage is coming down the pike?
We got People trying to Organize a Group to join the Teamsters. Flyers everywhere with Meetings. Folks...just my Opinion but the ILA just signed a new Contract. "They dont want us in there." They are trying to shut you down with your older Model Truck. What would the Union do with that? Nothing. You own that Truck because your Independent. Not a Slave to an outside entity. If your not making Money at what your doing, move the Truck to another line of work. I been Driving 20+ and refuse to have anyone tell me what im gonna do with MY Equipment that I bought and Paid for.

Fellow Drivers please keep the "Outside and look in" type of Mentality! Let em Write my Plate down! Losers!

[transitman]

so how would we join the teamsters? i believe they represent company drivers. what you are saying drayman is the union wants to get rid of the independent with a truck? i read that somewhere else. sorry but i'm not interested in joining a group who wants me to give up my truck. why the hell would i work to purchase my truck then turn around and give it up? i would be interested in joining a group for owner-operators in savannah. we need a group that represents our interest as truck owners and as drivers in savannah.

[TRUCKNTOWN]

So who is this meeting for? Company drivers? I have been hauling out of ocean terminal for the past three weeks. I haven't seen any flyers down there.

[onetruck]

hey everyone i found this article. you can read into it what you want but maybe we do have something to worry about. it appears the teamsters union will try to take away our truck ownership rights if given half the chance so beware.



"Obama uses ‘green’ emissions standards to push truckers into Teamsters union"


President Barack Obama’s administration is using new “environmental standards” to force independent owner-operator truckers into becoming part of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a union that gave more than $2 million to Democrats in the last two election cycles.

By increasing the number of “green” requirements truckers have to comply with in order to get into some major United States ports — like Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland — the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are helping push previously independent truckers into companies, which then makes them vulnerable to unionization or, in many cases, forced to join a union. As these aren’t administrative laws from the EPA per se, trucks that don’t fit this new “green” standard, which is meeting at least 2007 EPA emissions levels, are still allowed to operate throughout the country. But each of the major port authorities won’t let them in if they don’t fit the new environmental regulations, which would force many independent truckers out of business if they resist since many truckers depend on business from the ports to survive.

Alex Cherin, an attorney who represents a trucker advocacy group opposed to these forced unionization attempts, told The Daily Caller the Teamsters have been trying to get independent truckers classified as employees of a company for years because “under federal labor law, they [the Teamsters] cannot unionize independent contractors.”

“They [the Teamsters] see this as their window of opportunity,” Cherin said in a phone interview. “They know that most drivers want to stay independent contractors to keep their freedom, but that many can’t afford these new ‘green trucks.’ They want to piggyback their agenda onto an environmental initiative.”

Cherin said the Teamsters has been pushing unionization more and more lately, and it has “really heated up with the ‘green trucks’ program.” He said that the air in Southern California is cleaner as a result of the program, but that this is really a unionizing effort disguised in a “green” initiative.

Americans for Limited Government spokesman Rick Manning said this effort is definitely driven by labor unions, especially since the leader of the Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., is pushing it.

Hoffa, Jr., the current president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and son of the infamously “disappeared” union boss Jimmy Hoffa, alluded to his real intent with the program while advocating on behalf of the new “green truck” rules in a Huffington Post blog.

“We want the trucking companies to buy and maintain clean new trucks,” Hoffa, Jr. wrote in March 2010. “We also want them to pay their truck drivers a fair wage and the employment taxes that go with it. The trucking companies would prefer the federal government protect them from those obligations.”

These new “green trucks” cost more than $100,000 and, to meet the “green” requirements, truckers have to join companies and, by extension, the Teamsters union.

[chris]

who r these people in cars writing down plate numbers?

[mark]

i hope this is not true but its something that should be brought to the attention of all independent drivers in savannah. we already have enough problems without outsiders causing more for us.

[grey43]

who are the people trying to organize a group to join the teamsters. are they the ones writing down truck tag numbers or is this something the port is doing now? this port sucks. i'm so tired of the daily bs down at the piers. the ila could care less about truckers. they have their piece of the pie. we have the left overs.

[largecar]

that's interesting. maybe it's a google survey ;D

[crazyhorse]

my company issued a paper today stating there is going to be stepped up road checks soon in southeast georgia. anyone else have information on this or hear about it?

[lynn b]

i would like to learn more on the tag number detail. anyone know for sure who they were?