She said with more students returning to school buildings, there have been concerns that there aren’t enough bus monitors to enforce social distancing and ensure that students keep the windows open for proper ventilation. Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union, attended Tuesday’s picket in solidarity with the bus workers some of the paraprofessionals in Tang’s union are also bus monitors. Students in grades 4 through 8 are expected to return to in-person learning next week, and high school students are slated to return at the end of March and early April. The Boston school system is in the midst of having students return for hybrid learning, starting with high needs and lower elementary school grade students. Union leaders say, however, that the district and Transdev have been “throwing Safety Protocols like required adult monitors and physical distancing on school busses out the window and under the bus in their reckless and negligent speed to reopen their economy,” they wrote in a press release ahead of Tuesday’s event.
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Bus employees are eligible to sign up for vaccine appointments at any of the state’s vaccination sites, starting on March 11, along with other K-12 educators, child-care workers, and school staff members.īPS officials have held information sessions about vaccines in both English and Haitian Creole and they’ve helped some bus drivers book vaccine appointments at Tufts Medical Center, the district said. The district says it has also been working to get information to bus workers about opportunities to get vaccinated. We are extremely proud of our employees and what they have been doing to ensure essential services for our region,” their statement read. “The health and safety of our employees, passengers and the communities we serve remain the highest priority of the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and Transdev. The bus drivers’ union said that among bus drivers, monitors, mechanics, and safety dispatch workers, there have been nearly 40 coronavirus cases since Oct. Three active bus drivers and a retiree died from the virus in the spring, and a human resource specialist for Transdev also died of COVID-19. The school system’s transportation workers have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus. “It’s more of an informational picket and rally.” “We love doing our job: carrying the children of Boston.”įrancois stressed that the union action would not interfere with transporting students to and from school on Tuesday. “We need to protect the lives of all the people,” Andre Francois, the union’s president, told The Boston Globe Monday night. The advertisement for the event encouraged members to “bring your noise, your union mask, and your outrage!”
Tuesday’s event was held outside the Dorchester location of Transdev, the company that oversees the bus yards and buses for the Boston Public Schools.
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