{"id":1566801,"date":"2022-07-22T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566801"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:34:22","slug":"kills-the-american-dream-truckers-disrupt-port-of-oakland-to-protest-newsoms-labor-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kills-the-american-dream-truckers-disrupt-port-of-oakland-to-protest-newsoms-labor-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kills The American Dream\u2019: Truckers Disrupt Port Of Oakland To Protest Newsom\u2019s Labor Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkills-the-american-dream-truckers-disrupt-port-of-oakland-to-protest-newsoms-labor-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/NOAB5-scaled-e1658504198899.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Protests have disrupted shipping operations and supply chains at the Port of Oakland this week as truckers express their opposition to a new labor law that they say threatens their business model and way of life, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Bill 5 reclassified California\u2019s 70,000 independent owner-operators as employees of the shipping companies they work with to arrange hauls, rather than independent contractors, the WSJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/california-holds-firm-against-truck-protests-at-port-of-oakland-11658446047?mod=business_lead_pos10\">reported.<\/a> The law was designed to protect gig workers like Uber drivers, but many truckers see it as restricting their independence, and in response, have been blocking access to Oakland\u2019s port since Monday in an effort to get Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to delay implementation of the law and compromise with them, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/21\/business\/economy\/port-oakland-truckers-protest.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kills the liberty of being a trucker and kills the American Dream,\u201done Los Angeles-based trucker <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/17\/california-truckers-protesting-new-union-law-could-grind-supply-chain-halt\/\">previously told<\/a> the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, I had the opportunity to be at the Port of Oakland with truck drivers whose lives and businesses are being impacted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AB5?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AB5<\/a>. This law has created a legal nightmare. I opposed AB 5 in the Legislature &#038; I stand with our truckers and small businesses. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dahle4Governor?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dahle4Governor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8aoHIIcjNk\">pic.twitter.com\/8aoHIIcjNk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Brian Dahle (@BrianDahleCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianDahleCA\/status\/1549810034866917376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The protests have seriously derailed port operations, delaying not just shipments scheduled to go through the Port of Oakland but also clogging up other congested ports elsewhere in California as containers are diverted from the Bay Area, the WSJ reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this carries on, I don\u2019t know what we are going to do. We will literally be sitting on the last of our 2021 crop and not being able to ship it,\u201d Nina Solari, vice president at a family-owned walnut processor, told the WSJ. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/19\/san-fran-schools-absence-high-school-preparation-rates\/\">(RELATED: San Francisco Schools Report Worsening Absences And High School Preparation Rates)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supply chain issues have plagued the entire country throughout the pandemic, but California has been a particularly bad <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/10\/california-supply-chain-crisis-worse-biden-trucks-ports\/\">bottleneck.<\/a>\u00a0Increased stress on an already shaky system has attracted attention from federal policymakers, CalMatters <a href=\"https:\/\/us11.campaign-archive.com\/?e=07ec8ce5b4&#038;u=5f4af3af825368013c58e4547&#038;id=9b76d4e9f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AB 5 was signed by Newsom in 2019 and had been working its way through the legal system ever since, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case on June 30, paving the way for the law to go into effect earlier this month, CalMatters added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough it has been the subject of litigation, AB 5 was enacted in 2019, so no one should be caught by surprise by the law\u2019s requirements at this time,\u201d a spokesman for the governor\u2019s office told the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>Over half of California\u2019s truckers are contractors that work with shipping companies but maintain their independence. AB 5 makes this arrangement <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/17\/california-truckers-protesting-new-union-law-could-grind-supply-chain-halt\/\">no longer legally tenable<\/a>, and would force owner-operators to either become employees beholden to company regulations, or pay up to $20,000 out-of-pocket for permits and insurance to handle their own logistics and remain independent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve exempted all kinds of people from AB 5, but not truckers. We have a supply chain issue, we should let them go to work like everyone else. These are small business owners. Gavin Newsom is trying to force everybody to be employees and in unions even when they don\u2019t want to,\u201d Republican California State Sen. Brian Dahle, who is running for governor, told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Newsom nor Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf responded to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law would &#8216;would kill the liberty of being a trucker and kill the American Dream.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}