The Boston School Bus Drivers Need Your Help!

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Solidarity with USW L. 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers

No Concessions!    No Cutbacks!
Sign online petition for Fair Contract Now!
Call Mayor Menino, Transportation Director Jacobs and First Student VP Timilty! (Numbers below)

Find out how you can get involved: 617-522-6626 or labor@iacboston.org

Take Action, Now!
The Boston School Bus Drivers' Contract With First Student Has Expired.
USW Local 8751 Prepares For Strike on August 21.

USW Local 8751 is serving notice to the public that the British monopoly First Student, Inc. – which the City of Boston awarded a no-bid $343 million management contract with a $6 million bonus – is holding the children, parents and bus drivers of the Boston Public Schools hostage to its own corporate greed. With its labor agreement with 800 bus drivers expired on June 30, 2008, First Student has engaged in bad faith bargaining with the drivers, who have provided quality transportation for desegrated education to the students and parents of Boston since 1974. Instead of offering just and equitable wage and benefit increases to the workers who provide the service, super-profitable First Student has demanded concessions and cutbacks from a workforce already reeling from the economic crisis and cost of living in the Boston area.

Take Action Now to support the hard working school bus drivers of Boston's communities. The City's vendor agreement gives it the power to enforce "harmonious labor relations". The City must force First Student to the table in good faith to avert the pending crisis.

Call them today to say you want, "Safety for the Children, and Justice for the Drivers, Now!"

Mayor Tom Menino - 617.635.4500
School Transportation Director Rich Jacobs - 617.635.9520
First Student Vice-President Bob Timilty - 617.532.2500

for more information -

www.bostonschoolbusunion.org

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Labor Solidarity Committee of the
International Action Center

617-522-6626
labor@iacboston.org
http://www.iacboston.org/labor