More Silicon Valley Bus Drivers Want to Unionize

The push to unionize tech bus drivers is expanding.

Drivers from Apple, eBay, Genentech, Yahoo and Zynga all want to go union,according to USA Today.

There are about 120 drivers, full-time and part-time, who notified supervisors that they want to join the Teamsters.

So far, the Teamsters have unionized drivers for Facebook.

Neither the tech companies nor the transportation company with which they contract for drivers, Compass Transportation, offered comment on the development.

Officials from the Teamsters Local 853 say that Facebook going union first encouraged other drivers to follow suit.

"Marathon workdays" running 12 to 16 hours – split shifts for drivers, who have no time to go home in between shifts – for $18 to $20 an hour, "ferrying six-figure-earning technology workers to and from work" have helped encourage workers to go union, the newspaper reported.

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