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<li><a
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<li><a
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Solidarity with <a
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face="Arial" size="4">USW L. 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers</font></a></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="+1">No Concessions!
No Cutbacks!</font></b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">Find
out how you can get involved: 617-522-6626 or </font><a
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"
size="2"><b><font color="#cc0000"><big><big>Take Action, Now! <br>
The Boston School Bus Drivers' Contract With First Student Has Expired.
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USW Local 8751 Prepares For Strike on August 21.</big></big></font><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"
size="2">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.
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">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.
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<i><big>Call them today to say you want, “Safety for the Children, and
Justice
for the Drivers, Now!”
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<p><i><big><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big><b>Mayor
Tom Menino -
617.635.4500 <br>
School Transportation Director Rich Jacobs - 617.635.9520 <br>
First Student Vice-President Bob Timilty - 617.532.2500</b></big></font></big></i></p>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> for
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<a href="http://www.bostonschoolbusunion.org/"><font color="#800000"
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<div style="text-align: center;">www.bostonschoolbusunion.org</div>
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