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Teamster on Oak Harbor Freight Lines Picket Line Hit by Truck Driven by Replacement Worker
Police Charge Driver With Assault; Teamster Unhurt
October 2, 2008
(Pasco, Washington) – A Teamster business agent was hit today by a truck driven by a replacement worker as she was picketing legally in support of striking Oak Harbor Freight Lines’ trucking employees in Pasco. Police have charged the driver with assault.
Oak Harbor employees in the Northwest walked off the job Sept. 22 in response to hostile efforts by company representatives to bully and intimidate workers, which are unfair labor practices in violation of federal law. The Teamsters are picketing Oak Harbor Freight Lines’ trucks in California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Eydie Dean, a business agent for Local 117 in Tukwila, was walking the picket line when a truck driven by a replacement worker pulled into the Oak Harbor Freight facility in Pasco. Teamster officials are concerned about numerous safety issues surrounding replacement drivers. Some of the incidents have been captured on video and posted on YouTube. Links to the videos are provided below.
“I was standing on the picket line with my sign way up high and the driver could see it,” Dean said. “He pulled forward and I said stop and he just laughed and kept going, pushing me about three feet.”
A security guard then came out and told the driver that Dean and other picketers had a right to be on the property, Dean added. The police were called and the driver was cited with simple assault, according to a police report filed by the Pasco Police Department.
Dean said she was unhurt, but shaken, saying that nothing like this has ever happened to her before on a picket line. Dean left the picket line to go to a private luncheon being held today for Gov. Christine Gregoire, where she planned to let the governor know what had happened.
This is just the latest incident of unsafe driving practices by replacement drivers.
“Our guys have actually videotaped safety violations and the safety issues are immense,” said Tom Strickland, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 81 in Portland, Oregon. “You see people driving with the back doors open, swerving into traffic, blocking traffic.”
In Washington State, there have been incidents where replacement drivers have been seen driving while talking on their cell phones; overweight violations; and several incidents of drivers damaging property, said Rick Hicks, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 174 in Tukwila.
“We are concerned that the public’s safety is at risk,” Hicks said.
The National Labor Relations Board is investigating several labor law violations committed by the company, including coercing and threatening employees, as well as making unlawful changes to working conditions.
Oak Harbor Freight Lines, one of the largest trucking companies on the West Coast, provide time sensitive delivery services to some of the largest companies in the country including The Gap, Safeway, JC Penney, Sylvania, Graybar Electric, HD Waterworks, Honda, McKesson, Cardinal Health, Tec Equipment, Siemens, Georgia Pacific, Owens & Minor, GM & Chrysler Parts, Urban Outfitters and Maytag.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
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Police Charge Driver With Assault; Teamster Unhurt
October 2, 2008
(Pasco, Washington) – A Teamster business agent was hit today by a truck driven by a replacement worker as she was picketing legally in support of striking Oak Harbor Freight Lines’ trucking employees in Pasco. Police have charged the driver with assault.
Oak Harbor employees in the Northwest walked off the job Sept. 22 in response to hostile efforts by company representatives to bully and intimidate workers, which are unfair labor practices in violation of federal law. The Teamsters are picketing Oak Harbor Freight Lines’ trucks in California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Eydie Dean, a business agent for Local 117 in Tukwila, was walking the picket line when a truck driven by a replacement worker pulled into the Oak Harbor Freight facility in Pasco. Teamster officials are concerned about numerous safety issues surrounding replacement drivers. Some of the incidents have been captured on video and posted on YouTube. Links to the videos are provided below.
“I was standing on the picket line with my sign way up high and the driver could see it,” Dean said. “He pulled forward and I said stop and he just laughed and kept going, pushing me about three feet.”
A security guard then came out and told the driver that Dean and other picketers had a right to be on the property, Dean added. The police were called and the driver was cited with simple assault, according to a police report filed by the Pasco Police Department.
Dean said she was unhurt, but shaken, saying that nothing like this has ever happened to her before on a picket line. Dean left the picket line to go to a private luncheon being held today for Gov. Christine Gregoire, where she planned to let the governor know what had happened.
This is just the latest incident of unsafe driving practices by replacement drivers.
“Our guys have actually videotaped safety violations and the safety issues are immense,” said Tom Strickland, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 81 in Portland, Oregon. “You see people driving with the back doors open, swerving into traffic, blocking traffic.”
In Washington State, there have been incidents where replacement drivers have been seen driving while talking on their cell phones; overweight violations; and several incidents of drivers damaging property, said Rick Hicks, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 174 in Tukwila.
“We are concerned that the public’s safety is at risk,” Hicks said.
The National Labor Relations Board is investigating several labor law violations committed by the company, including coercing and threatening employees, as well as making unlawful changes to working conditions.
Oak Harbor Freight Lines, one of the largest trucking companies on the West Coast, provide time sensitive delivery services to some of the largest companies in the country including The Gap, Safeway, JC Penney, Sylvania, Graybar Electric, HD Waterworks, Honda, McKesson, Cardinal Health, Tec Equipment, Siemens, Georgia Pacific, Owens & Minor, GM & Chrysler Parts, Urban Outfitters and Maytag.
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents more than 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Here are the links to the YouTube videos:
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi_lQdrFS_
YouTube - Unsafe replacement worker
YouTube - unsafe oakharbor *****
YouTube - Truck driving with the trailer door open