Teamsters Local 117: SeaTac Taxi Drivers Strike For Second Day This Week Over Unfair Conditions, Retaliation From Dispatch

Drivers Protesting Unsanitary Bathrooms, Contractual Violations, Unsafe Conditions and Retaliation from Eastside For Hire

(Seattle, WA) – For the second day this week, taxi drivers who serve customers at Sea-Tac Airport will strike over unsafe, unsanitary working conditions and retaliatory practices by the drivers' dispatch company, Eastside For Hire. The strike will take place on Wednesday, August 23 at 10 A.M. in the Sea-Tac Airport parking garage.

Drivers engaged in an hour-long work stoppage on Monday to raise concerns about a number of contractual violations between Eastside and the Port of Seattle. Drivers were also protesting the wrongful termination of one of their co-workers, Ali Sugule. Sugule criticized Eastside For Hire at a Port of Seattle Commission meeting on August 8. His dispatch services were revoked later that week.

After Monday's action, Eastside For Hire suspended 18 additional drivers for participating in the strike. Teamsters Local 117 has filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that Eastside unjustly retaliated against the drivers for participating in protected activity.

WHO: Dawn Gearhart – Association Policy Coordinator, Teamsters 117
Seattle Taxi Drivers

WHAT/WHEN: TAXI DRIVER STRIKE AT SEATAC AIRPORT
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
10:00 A.M.

WHERE: Sea-Tac Airport – 3rd Floor Parking Garage  

Contact:
Dawn Gearhart, (206) 794-6678
dawn.gearhart@teamsters117.org

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Aug. 23, 2017/

SOURCE Teamsters Local 117