153 container ships are currently backlogged awaiting unloading for a second time....
Buttigieg clueless....
The drop in ships waiting off Southern California is deceiving. The number of ships off all three coasts is back to all-time highs.
www.freightwaves.com
In other news, Gavin Newsom declares war on truckers...
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AB5 called for "a person providing labor or services for remuneration shall be considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business."
Certain professions were exempt from AB5 – including insurance agents, health care professionals, investment advisers, realtors, barbers, and fishermen. In November 2020, app-based delivery drivers and rideshare drivers were made exempt from AB5. However, truckers were not exempt from AB5.
In January 2020, the trucking industry secured an injunction that prevented AB5 from including independent truckers.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case of the California truckers battling against AB5. The labor law would force independent contractors to be employees of trucking companies in order to work in California. As
TheBlaze previously reported, AB5 affects 70,000 owner-operated truckers in California.
AB Trucking owner Bill Aboudi told CNBC, "It seems the governor is not concerned about taking American workers’ rights away. These are independent, small businesses that choose to operate their own trucks, and now that right is taken away from them."}
Independent truckers shut down the Port of Oakland as a protest against a labor law signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Since Monday, California truckers have been blocking access to the Port of Oakland with a protest against Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). The truck drivers successfully stopped...
www.theblaze.com
Effect, meet cause...
