this is not Facebook's problem.
If you read the article, all the major tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, ...,
contract their bus service from outside bus companies. It's those companies that are
underpaying and forcing the bus drivers from getting 2nd jobs between morning and
evening shifts.
If I were Zuckerberg, why would I care? He's just going to find another bus line
that will offer the best service at a reasonable price. He can of course hire his
own bus drivers and allow them to unionize, but I doubt he will.
Now if all the bus line contractors become union shops, then all the tech companies
will have to hire buses that use union drivers.
A neighbor of mine, owns the Sundance Buses in San Diego. He has the contract to
bus the San Diego Chargers and the NFL visiting teams. He told me that they charge
their clients for having their drivers wait for their return home.
For example, their drivers would pick up the visiting team at their hotel, bus them to the game,
sit and wait until the game completed and then bus them to the airport. I've seen up to 4 buses
per team, with all the front office, staff, players, and home town media.
Another example, they would drive people from San Diego to Pasadena for the Rose parade.
To get to Pasadena by 8 am, the drivers would pick up the bus around 3 am. Drive to the
pickup location, then drive to Pasadena by 5am to arrive at 7am, in time for the clients
to walk to their seats by 8am start. Then the drivers wait for parade to finish at 10am.,
fight the traffic home, and get back to San Diego drop off location around 2 pm., Then
drive the bus back to the storage yard. Drivers get paid from 3am until about 2:30 - 3 pm.
Almost 12 hours. I don't know their driver policy, so I don't know if they get paid double
time for the whole trip, but they do get paid 1.5 for hours after 8, and double time after
12 hours, by law.
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