DC School Bus Drivers Rally

Monday, April 2, 2007

Nearly 500 D.C. school bus drivers and attendants demonstrated outside the school system's headquarters last Thursday to protest unpaid bonuses and salary increases dating to 2005, reports the Washington Post. The union's 1,350 members are owed $1.3 million in bonuses and two annual salary increases of 3 percent and 4 percent, said Dwight Kirk, spokesman for AFSCME Local 1959, District Council 20. School system spokesman John White told the Post that school finance officials were looking into why drivers were not paid the salary increases. “The school system said in a statement that all union members will be paid what they are owed from the increases April 13, the next payroll date,” reported Theola Labbé. “Superintendent Clifford B. Janey and Board of Education President Robert C. Bobb pledged in a letter to union President Andrew Washington to meet with union officials weekly to discuss issues.”

 

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