FedEx drivers choose Teamsters
FedEx Home Delivery drivers at two locations in Wilmington have voted 24-8 to choose Teamsters Local 25 in Boston to represent them against FedEx, following on the heels of a similar movement for union representation at a FedEx Ground facility in Northboro.
The workers are the first units in the FedEx Home Delivery System to win Teamster representation, part of an ongoing dispute that drivers are being labeled independent contractors despite working as if they were full-time employees of FedEx. The National Labor Relations Board in Boston has ruled seven times that FedEx contractors are actually employees, and as such, can unionize.
Says Sean O'Brien, president of Teamsters Local 25: "Their voice was finally heard despite every effort by FedEx to silence them. I look forward to securing a first contract for these drivers that will ensure they are treated like the employees both we and the company know they are."
For more on the Northboro drivers, please click here.
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