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.