HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. (WSVN) — Truckers went on strike in the streets of Hialeah Gardens to protest what they call unfair labor practices.
Trucks lined up along the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway and Okeechobee Road, Monday morning.
Truckers from a number of different companies protested in hopes of changing a slew of labor practices. “The reason we here today, cause we can’t work no more,” said Joel Varela-Diaz. “We struggle, we going to hell, we don’t have no money — not even to put our trucks in the condition that the DOT, they want it. We can’t afford it.”
The drivers said companies are preventing them from claiming standard workplace protections, such as overtime pay, minimum wage and unemployment benefits.
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