New York, NY – Parents of school kids who take the bus to city schools are being told that a strike may be on the horizon.
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According a letter being sent from Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott to parents today, the bus drivers union ATU Local 1181 is threatening to strike over the city’s plan to ask for bids for service to transport special education pre-kindergarten children for next school year.
The letter says the union wants job protections for current bus drivers.
In response, the city is filing a charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is holding a news conference at City Hall this afternoon to discuss the possible strike. In his press conference Bloomberg slammed the union saying it’s an Illigal strike, that could affect more than 152,000 students.
Don’t forget they’re part of the 99%.
I’m not sure what the big deal…most yidden in new york live relatively close to the yeshivos where the kids go to school and relatively few go to public schools. Like parents all over the country they can drive their kids to school during the strike or take the bus/subway or even c’v walk the way our parents and grandparents did in the alte heim.
With all due respect, in the alte heim the mothers weren’t out working. School hours are much shorter than work/commute hours and this would be a real hardship for many parents.
Let’s hear it for the unions…