Judge sides with port truckers in misclassification fight

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An interesting footnote to our post yesterday on the continuing complexity of the operations at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex and, in particular, the questions that the Ocean Alliance will need to resolve in terms of terminal choice. The next step from terminals is, of course, what happens after the landside gates, and Cosco’s US ex-gate haulage operation, Intermodal Bridge Transport, has just been found guilty at a US employment tribunal of misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors instead ...