Boston School Bus Drivers

Report on. Steelworker, Autoworker and Teamster “Workers Memorial Day” 5/28/2020   Click here for EOSP Procedures Emergency Standard Operating Procedures draft 4 051820 Click Here for The original Demands Email to Dr. Cassellius, —5/29/2020   Dr. Cassellius, Yesterday, Steelworkers, Teamsters, and Autoworkers assembled at 6:30 AM at the BPS food home-delivery operation at the Freeport bus yard to honor our co-workers …

First, I want to begin by thanking you, the bus drivers of United Steelworkers Local 8751, for helping deliver food to our Boston Public Schools students, making sure they continue tohave the free and healthy meals they rely on.

Source : Workers World | Solidarity with low-wage worker fightback   Tens of millions of workers in the U.S. — over 90 percent in the private sector —  have no union. Under current anti-worker laws, our siblings who drive for Uber/Lyft aren’t even considered workers and are ineligible for meager unemployment insurance payments. Drivers and other gig workers are being told …

Source: Workers World | Boston school bus drivers win emergency full pay during school closure   On March 16, elected officers of United Steelworkers Local 8751, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, conducted mass meetings in the bus yards over loudspeakers with hundreds of drivers, monitors, dispatchers and support staff. They presented a multipart agreement reached with Transdev — a division …

As news of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads as fast as the virus, now reported in all New England states, workers in fields of public education have been advised by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and all branches of public health and government to prepare immediately…

SOLIDARITY with Boston School Bus Drivers USW LOCAL 8751 Don’t Believe the Anti-Union, Labor-Hating, Blame-Shifting LIES of and other media  The Hard-Working members of Local 8751 Are NOT Engaged in a Labor Action ….YET ! Download PDF   The responsibility for the school transportation problems of last week, as well as the impending, potentially disastrous Boston Public Schools start-up this week, …

Download PDF Veolia Transdev / BPS, “We Say, No!  Union Busting’s Got To Go!” Live the 8751 Legacy: No Concessions, No Way! When your united, fighting Negotiations Committee started the contract bargaining process for our valuable labor and our families’ well-being last Spring, Transdev and their City sponsors laid down a contract war-proposal that tore up nearly every page, from …

By Steve Gillis Photo: Chief Steward Ed Childs and Sarah Cleary of Harvard dining service workers, UNITE HERE Local 26. Hundreds of students, university workers, social justice activists and contingents of antifa and other antifascist activists from greater Boston blockaded the doors of the Kennedy School of Government in a cold, dark rain on Nov. 30, outraged that “liberal” Harvard …

Broad support for dishwashers, cooks vs. billionaires By Ed Childs and Steve Gillis Cambridge, Mass. For 20 days Harvard Square was the scene of the most raucous, disruptive demonstrations this town had experienced since the Vietnam War. The workers at Harvard University Dining Services were on strike and Harvard wouldn’t budge. But finally the bankers who control the Harvard Corporation …

Dec. 22 — After more than two years of hard-fought struggle, the militant, fighting rank and file of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union — United Steelworkers Local 8751 — have won a historic victory against global giant Veolia/Transdev, one of the most notorious capitalist union busters, and Boston Public School bosses, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and their media mouthpieces. …