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<p>[QUOTE="Fusion, post: 5183639, member: 152743"]Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees, but not independent contractors, have the right to organize a union. Therefore, Gutman Dickinson, an attorney for the Teamsters Port Division says, “If a company misclassifies its drivers as independent contractors when in fact they are employees, as is a common practice in port trucking across America, it is effectively telling workers that they cannot unionize, and thereby interfering, restraining, and coercing them in the exercise of their very basic rights to choose whether or not to form a union. The issuance of this Complaint by the Regional Director – and now the prosecution of the Complaint by the General Counsel of the NLRB – will send the message loud and clear to the trucking industry that misclassification carries a high price, and that companies can no longer violate the law with impunity without multimillion dollar liability, recurring labor unrest, and contempt of court, including fines and imprisonment.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting. Know anyone who is misclassify. This might help...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.justice4ladrivers.net/Release_4_20_16.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.justice4ladrivers.net/Release_4_20_16.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.justice4ladrivers.net/Release_4_20_16.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fusion, post: 5183639, member: 152743"]Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees, but not independent contractors, have the right to organize a union. Therefore, Gutman Dickinson, an attorney for the Teamsters Port Division says, “If a company misclassifies its drivers as independent contractors when in fact they are employees, as is a common practice in port trucking across America, it is effectively telling workers that they cannot unionize, and thereby interfering, restraining, and coercing them in the exercise of their very basic rights to choose whether or not to form a union. The issuance of this Complaint by the Regional Director – and now the prosecution of the Complaint by the General Counsel of the NLRB – will send the message loud and clear to the trucking industry that misclassification carries a high price, and that companies can no longer violate the law with impunity without multimillion dollar liability, recurring labor unrest, and contempt of court, including fines and imprisonment.” Very interesting. Know anyone who is misclassify. This might help... [URL]http://www.justice4ladrivers.net/Release_4_20_16.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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