Newly unionized port truck drivers who seized a landslide victory in their historic workplace election launched bargaining with the Melbourne-based Toll Group.
Management at the Toll Group have the opportunity to show that their “One Toll” policy for a productive, efficient and safer workplace for all Toll workers is more than just words.
Australian transport giant Toll Holdings will open negotiations with the powerful Teamsters Union on pay and negotiations in Los Angeles. Watch General President Jim Hoffa's interview about the difficult working conditions Toll drivers are forced to endure. Watch the video here.
Far from Los Angeles’ centers of power, the harbor seldom gets the attention it deserves as a driving force in the Southland’s economy. Yet decisions big and small made there have an impact on businesses and workers as far away as the Inland Empire.
In an election sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board, the drivers voted 46-15 in favor of joining the Teamsters Union, according to Change to Win, a coalition of labor, community and faith-based organizations supported by the Teamsters.
LOS ANGELES – Amidst jubilant chants of “Yes We Did!” in Spanish and English, a brave group of professional truck drivers celebrated the news that they trounced in their closely‐watched election to unite as Teamsters, despite their foreign employer’s vicious and expensive campaign to intimidate workplace leaders and suppress their free choice.
An industrial relations battle on a small site in the Port of Los Angeles that has reached epic proportions comes to a head today as 65 American container truck drivers employed by Australia's Toll Holdings vote on whether or not to form a union and be represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
US truck drivers working for Australian transport giant Toll Group at the Port of Los Angeles will hold a historic vote on Wednesday that could have ramifications at ports across the US and in Australia.
Ports in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico are the economic engines of regional economies employing hundreds of thousands of workers. Ninety-five percent of the goods imported to our countries flow through our ports.
