Bus drivers in Massachusetts school district strike for new contract – UPI.com

Could 8 (UPI) — College bus drivers in Marlborough, Mass., went on strike Monday leaving a whole lot of oldsters to seek out rides to high school for his or her kids, whereas a piece stoppage was prevented in Farmington and Westborough.

Teamster Native 170 negotiators talked with transportation vendor North Studying Transportation Bus, Inc. by means of Sunday evening in hopes to achieve a deal, however efforts fell quick in Marlborough.

“We’re bodily on strike in Marlborough,” Native 170 enterprise supervisor Jim Marks stated. “We will likely be on strike till we resolve the contract. We hope NRT brings a proposal again to the desk that will likely be accountable and good for the drivers, and we are going to go from there.”

Drivers in Westborough, although, opted to come back to work on Monday and not using a contract, however Marks declined to present an replace on their negotiations apart from to say the union members are “not on strike right now.”

There was a breakthrough in Farmington, with Teamsters and NRT deciding on pact particulars there.

“Probably, we may have had hundreds of scholars not come to high school for the length that the strike could have lasted,” stated Framingham Public Faculties Superintendent Robert Tremblay.

“And there may need been steps taken from there. Fortuitously, as we perceive it and heard all of it collectively, in actual time, that’s not the case. However we had been ready for the worst, hoping for the most effective. And because it seems, the most effective has come to fruition.”

NRT stated in an announcement it’s working to get contracts with Marlborough and Westborough drivers resolved as shortly as doable.

“The eye now shifts to the Marlborough and Westborough contracts, the place the devoted NRT crew continues to deal with their number-one precedence: transporting kids to and from college safely every single day,” the bus firm stated.