Delivery drivers for trucking company MBM Logistics in Orlando voted in favor of unionizing with the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters last Friday, despite the company’s decision to hire professional anti-union labor consultants to water down union support.
According to the Teamsters, drivers voted 60–47 in favor of unionization with Local 385 in Orlando, representing an overall voter turnout of 93 percent. Angel Lopez, a shop steward for the Teamsters further down South, was the first person that drivers first contacted to form a union. He told Orlando Weekly on Friday, “It was team effort.”
Lopez, based in Miami, is a longtime employee for delivery company DHL Express, a client of MBM Logistics. DHL Express has more than 7,300 employees that are currently represented by the Teamsters, including those like Lopez — an employee of 20-plus years — down in South Florida…