If FedEx Freight drivers in California choose to vote out the Teamsters, it will make the fourth Teamster facility to become union-free again.
Last week, drivers for FedEx Freight filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold an election to decertify the Teamsters union.
The unit consists of approximately 50 drivers who had voted to unionize in 2015.
In 2014, a group of 222 drivers at FedEx Freight in Charlotte, N.C., voted to join Teamsters Local 71; on Oct. 31, a group of 113 drivers at FedEx Freight in South Brunswick, N.J., joined Teamsters Local 701 in North Brunswick, N.J.; and on Oct. 14, a group of 47 drivers in Croydon, Pa., voted to join Teamsters Local 107 in Philadelphia, according to a 2015 post on Beeson, Tayer and Bodine–the law firm representing the Teamsters in the Stockton matter.
However, drivers in Charlotte, as well as Pennsylvania have already decertified the union.
In 2017, the Teamsters disclaimed interest in representing drivers it had unionized in New Jersey.
“To date, at three of the four FedEx Freight locations that originally voted for Teamster representation, the Union has either been decertified by employee vote or voluntarily decided not to continue as bargaining representative,” FedEx stated at the time.
