Crisis Averted: Deal struck with local school bus drivers
Nov. 1 Walkout Was A Spooky Proposition For Brooklyn Parents
UPDATE: Unionized school bus drivers and attendants for Jofaz Transportation and Y&M Transit reached a tentative contract agreement with the companies’ management late Monday, averting a walkout that could have sent thousands of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island schoolchildren and their parents scrambling for alternative ways to get to school.
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As a strike by nearly 900 school bus drivers and attendants loomed Monday, angry parents of more than 12,000 city schoolchildren who could be inconvenienced are uniting under a banner they’ve dubbed PIST (Parents to Improve School Transportation).