Last Friday, the National Labor Relations Board took action as well. Its Los Angeles region ruled that drivers who haul cargo for Pacific 9 Transportation from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the warehouses scattered around Southern California are actually employees, and therefore have the right to form a union. Like thousands of port truckers, the drivers for Pacific 9 could not drive for other companies. Their work and routes were scheduled by Pac 9; their payments to the company for equipment were prescribed by their employer; they were employees in everything but name. A recent study of port truckers by the National Employment Law Project, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and Change to Win concluded that roughly 49,000 of the nation’s 75,000 port drivers are misclassified as independent contractors, and that in California alone, the industry’s wage and hour violations run to approximately $850 million every year. The study concluded that drivers misclassified as independent contractors made on average $28,800 a year, while employees made $35,000.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:19:55 +0000
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