This Is the Teamster Effort To Organize the Truckers at the Ports
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Some truckers make good money and have a high degree of control of their schedule. Others work for low pay under exceptionally difficult conditions. Port truckers, in particular, have dealt with poor pay, high debts, wage theft, and other difficult conditions. But an effort is being made to organize for a better situation. On this episode, we speak with Ron Herrera, Director of the Teamsters Port Division, on the union's efforts, as well as how it fits into broader supply chain stress.
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| 0:42.8 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Odlots podcast. I'm Joe Wisenthal. |
| 0:58.9 | And I'm Tracy Alloway. So Tracy, obviously we've done plenty on logistics and supply chains |
| 1:06.3 | and the ports this year, but there's a pretty important perspective on all this that we still have |
| 1:11.2 | and I hit directly. I feel like we have done quite a few angles on ports and logistics and supply |
| 1:21.2 | chain issues, but you're right. There is actually a big one that we haven't done in detail, |
| 1:26.2 | although we've touched on it at various times. And that is what exactly is going on with the |
| 1:32.1 | labor market, the truckers, you know, be they over the road truckers or drainage truckers, |
| 1:39.6 | what exactly is going on there? Right. So we know like, for example, that, you know, |
| 1:44.9 | there's stress on all aspects of the human or the human aspect of the supply chain has been put |
| 1:49.6 | under stress. I know we did an episode last year with Craig Fuller of freight waves talking |
| 1:55.9 | about the sort of the two different trucker market and there's the sort of over the road, |
| 2:00.5 | long haul truckers that people most often probably associate in their minds with truckers. |
| 2:05.1 | And a lot of them, at least some of them do pretty well. However, the pay and conditions for |
| 2:10.4 | the port trucker is essentially the workers line up at the ports to take the goods from a port to |
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