A message from Parents to Improve School Transportation: Relax about bus strike but not about safety
PIST was an invited guest at the monthly membership meeting of school bus drivers’, escorts’, and mechanics’ Local 1181 ATU on November 22. This was clearly NOT a meeting to hold a strike vote. The president went over the union’s position on Employee Protection Provisions but no date was set for a strike vote, let alone a strike.
PIST described how parents were made to worry all weekend by media reports--traceable to Mayor Bloomberg—that a school bus strike could or would happen on the 21st. On Monday, some students came home with forms requested updated emergency contacts specifically in case of a sudden strike. President Michael Cordiello replied that never in the history of the local would they strike in the middle of the day and leave children stranded.
Leaders of PIST and of the Community Education Council 31 in Staten Island are some of