Teamster's Dirty Tactics

In a blast of six press releases late last week from various union and pro-union sources, backers of the Teamsters’ effort to change federal law in order to organize port drayage truck drivers severely mislead the public and encouraging the waste of taxpayers’ funds to help organize unions.
The press releases contained blatant falsehoods about the Clean Trucks Program in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) support of those programs. The ATA has supported the Clean Trucks Program in both ports and its members have helped the ports replace older trucks with newer, cleaner trucks at a rate that is well ahead of schedule. Both programs are successes in their current forms, yet neither port has the enforced the restrictive concession plan requirements that the U.S. Court of Appeals declared illegal last March. The releases falsely suggest that the Clean Truck Programs cannot succeed without those concession plan requirements in place.
“The union-led effort uses a campaign for clean air as a cover for an all-out effort to destroy small independent businesses owned by independent truck owner-operators