As the Mat-Su school bus strike stretches into a third day, bus drivers packed a school board meeting Wednesday to vent frustrations and call for district intervention.
Rolling bus cancellations all year were finally expected to end this week — until the strike was called.
“One route was late by 55 minutes because they didn’t assign a driver until the route was already 30 minutes late,” he told the board. “Those children had been outside at the bus stop with no contact because their parents had had to go to work in Anchorage.” This week the union faced accusations they “abandoned” students with the midday strike. The drivers’ union representative, however, testified Wednesday that they intentionally picked up students before striking to make sure they were safe at school.
“You hired this company. Are they fulfilling that contract? No, they are not,” Melody McCullough, parent of a middle-school student, told the board. “You need to take responsibility and enforce Durham’s contractual obligations including taking care of their employees so we can have services for parents.”Member Ted Swanson said he wore a red shirt in solidarity with the strikers and urged the district to enforce language requiring Durham to pay wage and benefits that attract and keep workers.
Any contract dispute would need to involve legal counsel, said Luke Fulp, the district’s outgoing deputy superintendent of business and operations, thefor the University of Alaska. Durham told the district they are able to recruit drivers, Fulp said. Trani answered the district could find itself with no buses even if drivers were available. Larson again interjected, saying any contract discussions would need to occur in closed session with legal counsel.“We have nothing to do with it,” he said. “And now we are watching a strike between Durham and the Teamsters. That’s all we’re doing.”“If we cannot legally do that in this moment, that is all that I wanted on record,” she said. “So thank you.
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