Sarasota grocery drivers join Teamsters labor union

Drivers at a Sarasota grocery distribution facility have joined the local Teamsters chapter. Unanimously, workers employed by United Natural Foods voted to be represented through the Teamsters Local 79 in Tampa.

“With one voice, we now go to the bargaining table to begin improving our standard of living,” Rob Kroupa, a seven-year driver at UNFI, says in a statement.

Drivers who joined the Teamsters Local 79 work at 6272 McIntosh Road, the Sarasota wholesale warehousing and grocery distribution facility for Delaware-based UNFI, whose largest customer nationally is Whole Foods.