STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A conceivable school bus motive force strike continues to loom over New York City.
On Friday, ATU Local 1181 launched a remark.
“The school bus workers we represent are professionals and their work produces the safest mode of transportation in the City of New York,” union president Tomas Fret mentioned. “It is the union’s obligation to produce a contract for its members so they may provide for their families.”
Spokespeople for the union, which represents greater than 8,000 bus drivers, attendants and store staff, has mentioned occasions were difficult for the previous a number of years, ABC News reported.
“Drivers, attendants and shop employees simply cannot make ends meet,” Fret mentioned. “We remain ready and willing to negotiate a fair contract before the school year begins. Let’s not forget, our school bus workers transport the most precious cargo in NYC.”
The final time there was once a school bus strike was once in January 2013, when employees demanded higher task safety.
At the time, dozens of school bus drivers and matrons, who had been individuals of Local 1181, walked the wood line out of doors the Pioneer Bus backyard on Arthur Kill Road in Rossville. Inside the lot, greater than 380 yellow buses sat idle — after they most often could be out on Staten Island roads to pick out up scholars and ship them house. That walkout in 2013 lasted greater than 4 weeks.
New York City Schools Chancellor C. Banks advised a father or mother advisory council on Aug. 10 that oldsters would have choice transportation choices to be had in the tournament of a strike.
Those plans may just come with giving scholars MetroCards and repayment for use of different transportation, City Department of Education spokesperson Nathaniel Styer advised Chalkbeat.
“We’re working hard to avoid that, but it is a possibility, and if it is, we will have clear direction to all of out parents across the system,” Banks mentioned.
