$21-million dollar "wage theft" settlement against Schneider for a Mira Loma, CA terminal that they operate for receiving and shipping Walmart goods from overseas (China). Walmart throws up its hands and says hey its the subcontractors (Schneider) doings. One thing Wally and Schneider agree on is the enforcement action was purely political. Workers at Mira Loma are trying to organize to get higher wages. The "purely" political action has employees getting back pay checks up to $20K.
Why do employers find it so difficult to pay workers for what they do, why are they always trying to tack on "uncompensated" extra's to the job. It's just so indecent. Take from those with the least and funnel it to the top of the organization.
Schneider and Walmart - Partners in crime
Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by geargrinder, Sep 1, 2014.
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Tacking on uncompensated extras is standard operating procedure for the trucking industry. This is the only industry, at least that I'm aware of, that employers are not required to pay their employees for a large percentage of the time they work. It's not going to change either, at least not in the foreseeable future, because drivers lack a representative organization with any real political clout.
Why do employers do this? Because there is no one to stop them from doing it.Chinatown Thanks this. -
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wondering how many more threads are going to be discussing this exact issue.
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Schneider can get around that by outsourcing that division to a temp service.
Nissan did that in TN; when the workers started causing problems because they are spoiled. The UAW lost out when Nissan started hiring temp service workers. -
So let me get this straight... You expect to be taken seriously discussing partners in crime.. and You have Jimmy Hoffa as an avatar? LOL.. whatever dude...
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OP do you have any links to a news outlet/s about this story?
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3 other threads on this today
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not just the ny times. i've seen it all over the web.
cnbc.com also has it. or had on the front page when i saw it. might have to scroll down for older stories by now.
it was posted on our local news websight last week.
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