Port Workers

News Updates

Headline News
November 5 -

A new study on the health impacts of pollution caused primarily by trucks, trains and ships servicing the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles finds children living closest to harbor trade corridors suffer from respiratory ailments significantly higher than previously thought.

Blogwatch
October 30 -

Ablelom Zerfiel sat in the cab of his 1992 Freightliner, waiting in a long line to drop off his empty cargo container at the Port of Oakland.

Headline News
October 29 -

Today, Mayor Bloomberg was joined by Newark Mayor Cory Booker to call on Congress to allow ports throughout the country to implement the Clean Truck Program developed in Los Angeles.

Headline News
October 2 -

The year-old program to replace old cargo trucks has made tremendous progress, with an 80% decline in emissions expected by the end of 2010 -- a year ahead of schedule.

Headline News
October 1 -

More than 5,000 trucks meeting 2007 federal emissions standards are hauling more than half of the cargo containers coming in and out of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, officials reported to mark today's first anniversary of the disputed Clean Trucks Program.

Press Release
September 16 -

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters mourns the tragic job-related death of 53-year-old John Robert Kiser, a Lakewood, CA dockworker and member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

Press Release
August 21 -

Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa applauded the announcement by the Salvadoran government that it will reopen the investigation into the assassination of Teamsters Port Division Representative Gilberto Soto after nearly five years since his death in Usulutan, El Salvador.

Headline News
August 12 -

Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) has asked newly-elected Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes to follow through on his commitment to strengthen the country’s justice system by reopening cases that have been ignored for too long under the previous administration, including the unsolved murder of Teamsters International Representative Gilberto Soto.

Press Release
June 9 -

A broad alliance of national, state and local environmental, public health, community and labor organizations today applauded President Barack Obama for his appointment of Joseph E. Brennan as acting chair of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the DC agency charged with reviewing ocean-bound commerce.

Headline News
May 29 -

Frederick Potter is assuming his new position as director of the Teamsters’ port division with humility and a keen awareness of the magnitude of the task that lies ahead.