First Student Workers in Bristol Organize with Teamsters

https://teamster.org/2024/05/first-student-workers-in-bristol-organize-with-teamsters/

2024.05.06

127 Bus Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Join Teamsters Local 671

Press Contact: Daniel Moskowitz Phone: (770) 262-4971 Email: Dmoskowitz@teamster.org

(BRISTOL, Conn.) – Bus drivers and monitors at First Student in Bristol have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 671. The new Teamsters provide student transportation for Bristol Public Schools.

“In less than a week, more than 150 bus workers in Connecticut at two different locations voted to become members of North America’s strongest union,” said Tony Lepore, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 671 in Bloomfield. “This organizing victory was a united effort and sets a positive precedent for future organizing endeavors. Thank you to Joint Council 10 Secretary-Treasurer Tom Mari, Local 1150 Secretary-Treasurer Rocco Calo, Local 251 Secretary-Treasurer Matt Taibi, Local 443 Secretary-Treasurer Sal Abate, and the Teamster Horsemen for their crucial leadership and support throughout the organizing process.”

“Bus workers in New England are seeing their counterparts at other yards organize with the Teamsters and they want to secure those same benefits for themselves,” said Mari. “Our Joint Council is proud to put the ‘team’ in Teamsters and work across state lines to help our affiliates organize workers and continue to build union density.”

The workers are now covered under the Teamsters First Student National Master Agreement, the largest collective bargaining agreement at any private school bus company in the United States.

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