The Port Truck Drivers' Alliance of Washington published its first newsletter this week. The Alliance comprises port truck drivers working at the ports of Seattle and is assisted by Teamsters Local 174.

KPFK radio reports on the Los Angeles port drivers’ two-year struggle for a union recognition and a contract.

The Australian transport giant Toll Holdings will sit down with the powerful US Teamsters union later this week to open negotiations on pay and conditions for its port drivers in Los Angeles.

A long struggle by 65 port drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach culminated in a historic first contract that raises their pay by $6 an hour, provides paid overtime, sick leave and holidays, a pension plan, a far more affordable health care plan with zero change in coverage, guaranteed shift hours and other job security provisions.