SCHOOL BUSES, UNIONS AND THE MOB: A SPECIAL REPORT; SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTS GO TO COMPANIES WITH TIES TO MOB December 26, 1990 – Without competitive bidding, New York City consistently awards the most expensive school bus contracts in the nation, and many have gone to companies linked to suspected organized-crime figures. One company that transported […]
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Drivers of NYC’s biggest school bus contractor vote to authorize a strike
With contract talks stalled, thousands of school bus drivers and attendants voted Wednesday to authorize a strike against Reliant Transportation, city schools’ largest bus operator, union officials said. Two thousand workers from the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local 1181 voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike against their employer, which operates about 900 of the city’s more […]
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