Facebook's tech bus drivers have had enough.
Fed up with working conditions that include a long mid-day "break" in between split shifts, drivers for Facebook's fleet of tech shuttles are looking to join the Teamsters, according to the New York Times.
And the union is employing a full-court press.
Union honchos wrote directly to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to pressure Facebook's shuttle bus contractor to bargain on behalf of about 40 drivers, the newspaper reported. The company does not directly employ shuttle bus drivers but does so through a company called Loop Transportation.
Working conditions for drivers are akin to "a time when noblemen were driven around in their coaches by their servants," wrote Rome Aloise, the Teamsters' Northern California boss. "Frankly, little has changed."
Drivers said the worst bit about the job is the split shift that requires them to work the morning and evening commutes, with shifts running from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then 5:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. or so, the newspaper reported.
Loop Transportation told the newspaper that most drivers make between $18 and $20 an hour, along with overtime and benefits.
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The president of the company told the newspaper that the union is not "necessary" thanks to the nice pay, and that nobody has " an answer for" the "split-shift problem," the newspaper reported.
