Drivers of buses for tech workers move closer to contract - SFGate
Bus drivers who transport workers for large tech companies moved closer Saturday to an agreement with its employer, Compass Transportation, over higher wages and improved benefits. Employees unanimously voted to support a proposed three-year contract from Teamsters Local 853 that calls for overtime pay and paid holidays. On Saturday , 75 drivers at a San Leandro union meeting voted in favor of the proposed agreement. Saturday’s vote was not a binding contract ratification vote, but rather a list of items the union hopes to get, Bryan O’Connell, a senior vice president for Compass Transportation, wrote in an e-mail. You are changing the face of a whole industry,” said Rome Aloise , international Teamsters vice president and the local union’s principal officer, told a roomful of drivers. The proposed contract would raise the wages of some bus drivers from their current $17 to $21 an hour to $25 to $29 an hour. It also offers more pay to drivers who work split shifts — dropping off tech employees in the morning and then picking them up in the afternoon on the same day, union officials said. Scott Peebles, a Compass driver who transports Apple employees, said. Source: www.sfgate.com
