Facebook bus drivers unanimously OK union contract
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The shuttle bus drivers who haul Facebook employees to and from Silicon Valley voted unanimously Saturday to approve their first union contract, promising high wages and improved working conditions. The contract awaits approval from the social network and Loop Transportation, the company which Facebook contracts to transport its employees.
In November, 87 drivers voted to join the Teamsters, a powerful labor union, amid complaints that they are underpaid, overworked and unfairly compensated for time on the job. The new contract includes an increase in the average pay for workers at Loop Transportation, from $18 an hour to $24.50 an hour....
Tech shuttle buses have become fraught symbols of the Bay Area's tech-boom-fueled wealth gap. For no one is that conflict as complicated as it is for bus drivers — the boom is the source of their employment, but they have also felt that they are underpaid and overworked victims of it.
After Facebook organizers first began organizing last fall, the efforts quickly spread to other tech companies. On Friday, tech company shuttle bus drivers employed by Compass Transportation who shuttle Apple, Yahoo, eBay, Zynga and Genentech will also vote on whether to join the union.
