An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports...
We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day.
We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, New York and New Jersey to tell our collective story. We have accepted the honor to speak up for our brothers and sisters about our working conditions despite the risk of retaliation we face....
Read the entire letter.
Pix from Dec 12, 2011 Occupy the Ports
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| 14th / Broadway, Oakland: Preparing to Shut down Port of Oakland. Dec 12. Photo: Susan Galleymore |
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| 14th / Broadway, Oakland: Preparing to Shut down Port of Oakland. Dec 12. Photo: Susan Galleymore |
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| Hanjin Shut down at Port of Oakland. Dec 12. Photo: Susan Galleymore |
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| Hanjin Shut down at Port of Oakland. Dec 12. Photo: Susan Galleymore |
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| Driver describing the life of a trucker to Occupiers. Read the letter, link above. Photo Dec 12, Susan Galleymore |
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