Weekly Labor Update

LABOR UPDATES

• Unions are now targeting Congress and trading stocks: “Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC) violated the STOCK Act *51 times* last year, making dozens of undisclosed stock trades with her spouse. Multiple trades were in companies that would be dramatically affected by bills under debate. This is rampant in Congress.”
• NEW: Truck drivers at the Port of LA are leading a groundbreaking union
  campaign. Their employer XPO systematically misclassifies them as
  ‘contractors’ so it can deny them basic benefits & rights. “They have worked a 40-50 hour week but because the deductions [for their truck payment, repairs, maintenance, insurance] for that week was more than they earned, they owe money to the company. It’s indentured servitude… It’s modern day sharecropping.” A victory could set a historic precedent for misclassified
  workers nationwide.