Port of Miami Withdraws Suit Over Truckers' Protests

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he Teamsters union said Saturday that the Port of Miami and one of its terminals had withdrawn a lawsuit against drivers at the port who had protested at the facility last summer over high fuel prices, shutting it down for two weeks.

“We look forward to working with the county and the industry to develop systemic improvements that will benefit the drivers and all stakeholders," Mack said,” Teamsters Port Division Director Chuck Mack said in a statement.

Steve Bass, assistant county attorney for Miami-Dade County, told Transport Topics Monday that the county had dismissed charges against almost all defendants in the case “including an organization called Support Trucking Group Inc., which represents several hundred truckers in the area.”

Mack, who plans to give an address at an international shipping conference this week in Copenhagen, Denmark, said he planned to ask shipping lines to incorporate universally recognized labor rights standards into their global code of conduct and to negotiate with their unions a process for monitoring compliance.

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