UFCW 1994 Urges Support of Super Shuttle Workers
Monday, February 24, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Citing a long
history of worker abuse by Super Shuttle parent
company Veolia
International, UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO is asking
area activists to urge Maryland
legislators to support HB 917, which would
force the company to negotiate
with the drivers or lose their lucrative BWI
contract. The Super Shuttle
drivers endure working conditions the local
likens to “indentured servitude,”
working up to 17 hours a day, seven days a
week, paying for their own gas and
tolls, and “often come home at the end of the
week having made no money, or
worse, owing Veolia money!” When the drivers
wanted the company to replace
faulty dispatch equipment last year, Veolia
“dragged its feet” and then fired
two drivers when Super Shuttle drivers staged a
rally at BWI, says Local 1994,
adding that the company has locked out drivers
in Boston and engaged in unfair
labor practices in Phoenix.