Media Highlights – Oakland
2012
Truckers Want Break on Audits, Los Angeles Business Journal, 10/1/12
Avoid (Or Evade) the Law: Just Label Em’ Independent Contractors, Huffington Post, 9/27/12
The Walmart model and the human cost of our low-price goods, The Guardian, 7/25/12
Feds Take the Wheel on Drayage, Journal of Commerce, 7/16/12
Goldman Sachs and hard work, Open Democracy, 5/7/12
Teamsters Refuse to Quit, Journal of Commerce, 2/6/12
What it’s like to be a truck driver at the Port of Oakland, Crosscurrents KALW, 1/11/12
2011
Congress considers law allowing other ports to mimic Clean Trucks Program, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 12/20/11
Schumer, Gillibrand Team Up for Cleaner Trucks, Politicker NY, 12/16/11
Protests shut down two US west coast ports, Financial Times, 12/13/11
How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers — Occupy Protesters Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Protest, Alternet, 12/10/11
Employers’ new ruse: “Independent contractors,” Salon.com, 10/7/2011
Op-ed: Must Take Wall Street Trickery Out of Trucking, Oakland Tribune, Assemblymember Sandré Swanson, 4/26/11
CA Attorney General Asks Court to Uphold Port’s Clean Truck Program, Bureau of National Affairs, 2/24/11
Calif. Bill Redefines Drayage Drivers as Employees, The Journal of Commerce, 2/23/11
Port Bill Keeps on Truckin’, CQ Weekly, 2/21/11
2010
Who’s Driving the Driver? Labor Groups Say Their Study Shows Port Drayage Drivers Are Being Misclassified As Independent Operators, Journal of Commerce, 12/20/10
Authorities Crack Down on Firms That Misclassify Workers, USA Today, 12/13/10
Unions Want Limit on Firms’ Use of Contractors, Wall Street Journal, 12/8/10
A Long Haul: How the Gov’t Policy to Modernize Trucks Collides with its Policies to Promote High-Wage Jobs, American Prospect, 9/6/10
Bill Would Allow Stricter Trucking Regulations for Ports, California Watch, 8/1/10
Op-ed: Ports Trade Tricks For Greener Jobs, Politico, Carl Pope & James P. Hoffa, 7/29/10
Ports of Contention, Roll Call, 5/5/10
Filters Proving Costly to Truckers, Oakland Tribune, 4/26/10
Clearing the Air at American Ports, New York Times, 2/26/10
2009
Op-ed: Congress Must Give Port Authority to Help Truckers, Oakland Tribune, Christine Cordero & Rome Aloise, 12/25/09
Cleaner-Trucks Mandate Will Create Hardships at Port of Oakland, New York Times, 10/30/09
Op-ed: Driving Toward Cleaner Air at Our Nation’s Ports, Huffington Post, Peter Lehner, NRDC & Carl Pope, Sierra Club, 10/28/09
Stuck on the Low Road, American Prospect, Dr. David Bensman, 10/5/09
Port Groups Look to Congress for Guidance as Legal Battle Stalls, Energy & Environment Daily, 7/9/09
Blocking the Port: A New Lawsuit Seeks to Impede Oakland’s Ability to Regulate Dirty Trucks, SF Bay Guardian, 6/3/09
2008
Port Pollution has Powerful Enemies, Oakland Tribune, 7/22/08
Long Waits, Low Pay for Port Drivers, Oakland Tribune, 1/1/08