Port Workers Plan L.A. Strike to Challenge Logistics Firms
- Teamsters target logistics companies and their customers
- As with ‘Fight for $15,’ the goal is to bring public pressure
A truck leaves a shipping terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles.
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Warehouse workers and truck drivers at Los Angeles ports are planning to launch a three-day strike Monday, aiming to put pressure on logistics companies they claim owe them back wages.
The action targets XPO Logistics Inc. and NFI Industries and marks the 16th strike mounted by the Teamsters union in recent years among nonunion workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, according to the labor group. Rather than focus on slowing work at the ports, the strikers plan to concentrate picketing and leafleting Monday and Tuesday on warehouses, headquarters and retail outlets of clients of XPO and NFI, as well as demonstrating at the port itself.