Feb. 6: Michael Ramos, director of social justice ministries for the Church Council of Greater Seattle, says hundreds of short-haul truckers have been off the job for a week, but they still feel their message isn’t getting out there. So, now advocacy groups are now showing solidarity.
“Drivers should be able to go to Olympia to ask for safer trucks, without having to worry about the possibility of losing their jobs and being verbally harassed or threatened, ” Ramos said, with a virtual chorus of supporters surrounding him and chanting to show solidarity. “Corporate-owned equipment is the responsibility of corporations themselves and not the immigrant drivers who cannot even be allowed to inspect them.”