Drivers that take technology workers from San Francisco to Silicon Valley voted to join the Teamsters union to boost wages and work conditions.

The San Francisco Bay Area is becoming progressively costly to those that live and work there. The employees of Compass Transportation, the shuttle drivers that take San Francisco residents to their Silicon Valley jobs, have voted 104 to 38 in favor of representation of Teamsters Local 853 in San Leandro, California, according to Bloomberg.

The booming technology industry around San Francisco has created an overwhelming demand for transportation from the city to outlying company headquarters such as Apple, Yahoo, EBay, Zynga, Genentech and Amtrak. Luckily, the tech companies who pay the contracts for these drivers are largely supportive of new contracts that help drivers earn more. After all, these are the people that drive around a very valuable commodity for them—their workers. But not everybody is on board with the service.

San Francisco activists have consistently structured blockades to protest the shuttle services. They feel that the service is a clear symbol of gentrification and income inequality, being that the enormous influx of highly paid tech workers in the city has assisted creating the highest housing rents in the U.S.

The benefits from being unionized could not only help to increase wages, but to provide more benefits and better work conditions. For example, it could help to provide a premium pay to drivers who work split shifts. Split shifts are shifts where drivers work morning and evenings but often can’t go home in between — sometimes working from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. but without pay for an eight-hour block of downtime.

Proving to be a leader in this conflict, in November, 87 shuttle-bus drivers for Loop Transportation, a contractor for Facebook, voted to join the same Teamsters local union. On Feb. 21, they successfully signed a new contract raising their pay from $18 an hour to $24.50 an hour.