Tuesday striking port truckers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach joined a coalition of community, labor and clergy leaders for a rally and march through Long beach with elected officials. The strike is part of a long campaign by port truckers, backed by the Teamsters, to end mis-classification of truckers as independent contractors instead of employees.

Transit workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin are up in arms over city plans to bring in a private company to operate a new fleet of streetcars.  The Amalgamated Transit Union is calling on the city to staff the streetcar system with workers from the County Transit System, one of few major employers in the city that provides jobs to a predominantly minority workforce.  Instead, the city is currently considering front-runner Transdev, a Fre