America’s Port Truckers Deliver a Resounding Yes Winning Union Recognition as Teamsters

[Omaha Steve]

FULL title: America’s Port Truckers Deliver a Resounding Yes Winning Union Recognition as Teamsters in Historic Vote; Drivers Coast to Coast Cite Los Angeles Victory to Clinch Collective Bargaining Rights They Are Currently Denied

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April 12, 2012

Australia’s Toll Group Anti-Union Rampage in U.S. Flops; Defeat Signals Global Supply Chain Industry Losing Decades-Long Grip on Workforce it Treats as Disposable

LOS ANGELES – Amidst jubilant chants of “Yes We Did!” in Spanish and English, a brave group of professional truck drivers who haul brand-name fashion imports celebrated late evening news that they trounced in their closely-watched election to unite as Teamsters, despite their foreign employer’s vicious and expensive year-long campaign to intimidate workplace leaders and suppress their free choice.

The results were 46 – 15 in favor of the union, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced. The drivers will celebrate their history-making outside of Toll Group’s truck yard at Thursday’s shift change at 4 pm PST along with allies and their counterparts at other companies who also seek to unionize; members of the media are welcome, 710 East G Street, Wilmington.

“Our victory means we are finally getting closer to the American Dream. If we can win, I know other port truck drivers across the U.S. can unite just like we did,” said Orlando Ayala, who has hauled at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for nearly 10 years. “A voice on the job means management can no longer humiliate us or force us to suffer in poverty while they profit,” added the father of 3, who questioned why Toll created such an exploitive and union-hostile environment for its workforce here, contrary to its practice overseas.

Toll Group is an iconic brand Down Under but the Melbourne-based trucking and logistics carrier has saturated that market and must expand in the U.S. to survive. The $8.8 billion giant freely negotiates with and benefits from its unionized Australian workforce, and does business with U.S. companies with strict responsible contractor policies like Under Armour, making Toll’s top athletic apparel customer the target of a current petition on the online activist website, Change.org.

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[JNelson6563]

1. This is GREAT news!

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2. I love union success stories. K&R

Fellow union members, I salute you!

[madrchsod]

3. good news!