Sweatshops on Wheels

Since the deregulation of the port trucking industry in the 1980s many trucking companies have re-labeled employees as "independent contractors." The trucking companies now pass the cost of owning and maintaining trucks on to drivers and avoid paying payroll taxes, Social Security, Medicare, and workers' compensation because the drivers aren't classified as employees. The result is a workforce that lives in poverty and does not have the resources to operate clean trucks. The industry has become a sweatshop on wheels.

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[jimmyo1231]

why don't you interview any white drivers?

[sparbuilder2]

If these drivers are not happy with the system they should return to their own country. they will not because they are now working in the greatest country in the history of the world. I have been to the their third world countries. They have it so great here that each one would not dream of going back. Why do foreigners risk their lives to come here? Because it is the greatest country in the history of the world. The USA. Now quit complaining and get to work!

Ungrateful bastards!

[SomeRandomFeller]

If i were hiring all these damn foreigners I wouldn't pay them for shit either. They don't deserve to make what a real american makes. Take this liberal bullshit and blow it out your ass. These habeeb motherfuckers are bitching, yet I bet NONE of them would trade this for the NOTHING they had before. You could give them everything and they would still bitch.

[texas9085]

Join the Teamsters dont wait for the goverment to do anything.You might be dead before that happens.