
The Senate has passed legislation that would avert a freight rail labor strike, a work stoppage that many believe would strain trucking operations. The bill awaits President Biden.
The Senate has passed legislation that would avert a freight rail labor strike, a work stoppage that many believe would strain trucking operations. The bill awaits President Biden.
A freight rail strike could happen as early as Dec. 9 unless a contract is ratified or Congress intervenes. Would trucking be able to pick up the slack of a rail shutdown?
A southern California drayage company will have to make all its independent contractor drivers into union employees under a settlement of a longstanding labor dispute.
United Auto Workers union members packed up their picket lines at Volvo Trucks North America’s New River Valley assembly plant Wednesday evening (July 14) after members narrowly approved a new six-year contract.
Volvo Trucks North America announced that it will re-start production at its New River Valley truck assembly plant under the terms of a six-year contract that was rejected by workers on July 9.
Union employees on May 16 rejected a new five-year labor agreement at Volvo Trucks North America’s New River Valley truck assembly operations in Dublin, Virginia.
The ABC test raises its head on Capitol Hill: Sweeping federal labor legislation could threaten trucking's independent contractor model.
President Biden has reversed a Trump administration move that expanded apprenticeship programs in an “industry-led” model, instead announcing plans to expand the registered apprenticeship programs favored by organized labor.
Business and trucking interests are criticizing a union-backed labor bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Among other things, the bill would rewrite how independent contractors are defined along the same lines as the controversial new AB5 law in California, which would upend trucking’s longstanding use of owner-operators.
The six-week strike at General Motors impacted the delivery of certain components to Navistar’s Springfield, Ohio truck assembly plant, causing the company to suspend the delivery of 5,000 vehicles.
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