Some of the trucking companies doing business with Australian middleman Peter Ruston say his federal indictment on alien smuggling charges have severely hampered efforts to hire foreign drivers.

The Teamsters union won a round in its ongoing battle with Overnite Transportation when the National Labor Relations Board told the company it had to bargain with the union at four of its terminals.

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in British Columbia went back to work Nov. 15, after the Canadian federal government threatened to intervene with back-to-work legislation.

The organization representing U.S. truck engine manufacturers thinks the Environmental Protection Agency is making last-minute “massive changes” in an agreement regarding emissions reductions and it would like the agency to slow things down.

The Teamsters placed Local 115 in Philadelphia in trusteeship and removed its top executive Nov. 14, citing an abuse of member rights and failure to protect union finances.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration revealed its long-awaited and controversial ergonomics plan, which the agency expects to prevent 300,000 workplace injuries every year.

The Teamsters placed Local 115 in Philadelphia in trusteeship and removed its top executive Nov. 14, citing an abuse of member rights and failure to protect union finances.

Employment attorney Thomas P. Krukowski, who represented the Teamsters union in the early 1970s, gave a gathering of trucking executives a glimpse of what the union's strategy should be.

A lawyer told dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers that the recent Supreme Court rulings on the Americans With Disabilities Act was a major win for trucking companies.

Dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers assembled to discuss vexing labor relations issues and how best to adapt to the changes ahead of them as the century draws to a close at the 13th annual conference of the North American Trucking Industrial Relations Association.