LA sues three port trucking companies for exploitation of workers

As far as the ports go; this is another reason they're pushing for robotic ports; as the Chinese call the "ghost ports" because only 9 people manage and run huge port facilities.
'Ghost port': Asia's first fully-automated port begins ...
'Ghost port': Asia's first fully-automated port begins operations in Qingdao
'Ghost port': Asia's first fully-automated port begins operations in Qingdao. 2017-05-13 15:23 GMT+8 544km to Beijing. Editor Gao Yun. By CGTN's Han Peng. Seven of the world's busiest container terminals are in China but now, one of them is completely void of workers. The eastern port of Qingdao is home to Asia's first fully-automated port ...
Even the trucks inside the port facilities are driverless:
Videos of China's ghost ports

 

Ghost ports are being built in the USA because the Longshoreman Union and truckers cause so many expensive problems.
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Automated Ports in the United States - More Than Shipping
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Cargo Ships Stack Up At Ports of Los Angeles and Long ...
https://gcaptain.com/cargo-ships-stack-up-at-ports-of-los-angeles...
Anchored container ships and with other vessels sit offshore near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach during a strike by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office ...

 

NJ is also trying to force all pier owner operators into being drivers.

The 'Mis-classification' effort is being driven by the local Teamsters boss.

He keeps telling the legiscritters that all pier drivers are are being forced to be owner operators by leasing deals, etc. and is waiving all the uncollected unemployment and workers comp dollars that the state's coffers badly need.

NJ Dept of Labor is sharpening their axe except one of the first 'trial' cases is already in Federal court...

 

Zero sympathy for any of these port drivers.
Nobody put a gun to their head.
They were dum enough to sign a lease,
That's their problem.

They had a choice. They choose to work
Like a dog and get ripped off.
But they were home every night.

The rest of us chose to sacrifice our home time
For a real job that pays real money.
But they don't want that.

Everybody knows the ports are one big ripoff.
Always has been.
Don't work there,plain and simple.
There a 1000 trucking jobs open everyday.

Seems like every 4 months these port driver
Are striking or complaining about low pay
Or being ripped off Somewhere in the country.

They get what they deserve.
Do like we do. Load up the sleeper and hit
The road for a couple weeks at a time and make
Some money and stop complaining.

One look at the equipment going in and out of a port
All day is all you need know about what your
Getting yourself into.

The whole place reeks of junky equipment,lairs,thieves,
Con men, scam artists.
Old mafia style bosses running the whole place.

Nothing about a port says legit,respect,honesty, fair. Nothing.
3 moths from now it'll be in New Orleans, or Newark or wherever.
They'll be in front of another news camera complaining about
How they worked a 100 hours a week for 50 bucks. Lol.
These guys are unbelievable. It never changes.

 

exploitation in LA?! i find that very hard to believe.

 

I remember another strike they had previously that lasted a month. There were probably at least 50 ships anchored off the coast, even outside the harbor off Orange County. The longshoremen outlasted the shipping companies, though. Easy to do when you're getting paid $100K+ per year.