![]() Video of the incident shows Dreyer being squashed up against a white van by a guard. Jesse Dreyer, a member of International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 162, says a Huffmaster agent beat him while he was picketing with members of the local bakers’ union outside the Nabisco bakery on Monday morning. 14 alleging assault and battery by a guard working for Huffmaster Crisis Response, a Michigan-based strike staffing company hired to police the strike at the Nabisco bakery in Northeast Portland. ![]() TEAMSTER SUES NABISCO SECURITY COMPANY: A Portland Teamster filed a federal lawsuit Sept. The good news: 50 new drivers have begun training. “We have had, and will continue to have, some routes that have had to be canceled and others that have seen pickup or drop-off times altered,” the district says. Meanwhile, PPS says the driver shortage poses major bus scheduling problems. PPS says about half the school districts in the country now face driver shortages they termed “severe” or “desperate” in a national survey. Those drivers moved on as the demand for commercial drivers skyrocketed with the expansion of home delivery services and other economic shifts. So, in spring 2020, the district laid off 186 contract bus drivers represented by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757. Kate Brown forbade districts from laying off employees. Schools were closed, the economy looked perilous, and Gov. The shortage stems from a difficult financial choice the district says it was forced to make when the pandemic hit in 2020. 1, now faces an acute shortage of bus drivers-it’s down 86 drivers out of a total of about 330. PORTLAND SCHOOLS FACE BUS DRIVER SHORTAGE: Portland Public Schools, which reopened Sept. (Mick Hangland-Skill) By WW Staff Septemat 5:29 am PDT The board said they needed more control over the situation with the bus routes….now they have it and we have parents and families scrambling trying to figure out what to do.School bus at Duniway Elementary. If we can’t provide transportation to school for children then we should not pay one dime for transportation for school board members, director, or administration….especially when we are still paying the salaries of TWO directors because our board insisted on buying our last one out of her contract without giving any reason. Their costs to operate have risen just like everyone else’s and to offer them anything less than what they already had is unthinkable. “Bus contractors are small businesses and operate for a profit. We hope they can make a decision before school starts and that bringing this to a bigger public spotlight will help get them to make a quicker decision.” Ashley Sands Alston: Our students and parents are going to get the brunt of this while the ones in charge get to take their time making a decision. Our children are still going to be marked absent/tardee while buses are not running. Which you’re never sure is accurate or not. All my other info/updates have been through Facebook. Being told a week before school starts that buses are not guaranteed is irresponsible of all parties involved. This situation should have been resolved before now. Now he does not know if that is a possibility. He was hoping to send his previously homeschooled 12-year-old son back to the classroom. “It’s just a big mess,” said parent James Alford.Īlford is new to the Sweetwater area. Contractors, we all got up, and walked out and we decided at that time that we was not going to sign the contract as it stood.”Ĭurrently, the system is 30 buses short, Sweetwater has no bus routes at all, and no resolution seems to be in sight. “Fifteen minutes later they voted for the contract. “I had read a letter to them if you approve this contract, we will probably not sign this contract,” said Miller. With that money gone and local contractors refusing to return, bus drivers are now a scarcity. They took that money, moved it over to seat pay, raised the seat pay, but they took the $400 basically away from us.” We was receiving $400 per month of supplement per each bus that was on a route. “They took money we was already receiving. “What we’ve seen now is a crisis,” said bus contractor James Miles. ( WATE) - Residents in Monroe County are calling their current school bus situation a “crisis” as the county’s number of bus contractors and buses remains cut in half.
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