Everett school bus drivers could strike amid contract fight
EVERETT — Unionized school bus drivers in Everett may walk off the job if negotiations with the company Everett Public Schools contracts its bus services from continue to go poorly, labor organizers said.
Members of the Teamsters Local 38, which represents the 175 school bus drivers that help transport the nearly 20,000 students who attend school in the Everett district, are in disagreement with Durham School Services over its latest contract, Local 38 president Pete Lamb said in an interview Wednesday.
School bus drivers in Everett first voted to join the local Teamsters union in 2019. The Teamsters’ latest contract with Durham expired on July 31 and the union voted to authorize a strike on Sept. 5.
“We’ve been free to take them on strike this entire time,” Lamb said. “But we take the responsibility and the fact that there’s kids impacted and parents impacted very seriously. We want to make sure that we’ve done everything in our power to get a fair contract done without having to disrupt our community.”
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