CINNAMINSON, N.J.—The Teamsters Union won a small victory in its efforts to organize drivers at XPO
Logistics, Inc. in late October, when drivers at the company’s facility in Cinnaminson, N.J., voted 19-4 to join Local 107. The union said it won “despite the company’s vicious anti-worker campaign in which they used in-house union busters.” “The XPO workers in Cinnaminson are tired of the ongoing mistreatment, including the loss of work to subcontractors, and they know that by forming their union they can have a voice to challenge the company’s actions,” Local 107 President Bill Hamilton said in a statement. The Teamsters have had mixed results in trying to organize workers at XPO, a leading company in the field of warehousing and shipping goods. It has won elections at six other XPO sites since 2014, including Los Angeles, Miami, Trenton, N.J., and King of Prussia, Pa. But it has lost votes in nine cities and dropped petitions for elections in five others. The company said the vote “won’t change the direct working relationship” it has with its employees. XPO has been forced to pay raises it withheld from newly unionized workers in Miami and King of Prussia. Read more
