After a week of protests, the Port of Oakland promised to be a liaison between truckers and Sacramento over AB 5.
Navdeep Gill, who owns a small freight company, said the blockade gave the independent trucking community a voice among lawmakers, although he could not point to any specific progress on their demands to provide truckers an exemption to the AB 5 law.
“We are responsible citizens and it’s our responsibility to not break the supply chain,” Gill said on his reasoning for restarting work. But he warned that truckers would “all come back” to the port if progress is not made in the coming months. The protest, which shut down the majority of Oakland cargo flow for five days, was just the latest turn in the saga of AB 5. The 2019 legislation is commonly known as the “gig worker law” and is best known for forcing Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as employees. The ride-hailing giants spent over $200 million on a successful ballot measure to exempt them from AB 5, but that measure was ruled unconstitutional by a state court and is now working its way through a federal appeals court.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – JULY 21: Spokesperson Navdeep Gill and truck driver Kulginder Singh, from left, take part in a truckers rally during a protest in front of Matson shipping at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Truck drivers have blocked access to container terminals in protest of state Assembly Bill 5, a bill that creates standards for classifying workers as independent contractors.
California truckers filed a lawsuit that also put the law on hold. But in June the Supreme Court declined to review a case opposing AB 5, leaving the state free to start enforcing the new system of employee classifications and sparking last week’s protest.
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