[news] Truckers Join IWW, Win 2-Day Strike

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By Adam Welch, Motor Transport Workers IU 530 Organizing Committee - Published in the Industrial Worker, October 2004 More than 200 Stockton owner-operator truckers working out of the rail yards in California's Central Valley have joined the IWW since July and won several victories. In the past few weeks the union has successfully worked to reverse two IWW members' life-time banishments from the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe rail yard and negotiated a favorable settlement of a strike at the 11-driver Patriot trucking company.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/10/235016/16