Short Line is planning to bring in out-of-state bus drivers later this week to restart its commuter service between Rockland and New York City, which has been crippled by a 10-day-old drivers’ strike.
There’s no indication the strike between Short Line’s parent company, Hudson Transit Lines, and Transport Workers of America Local 225, the union representing 240 drivers, mechanics and ticket agents, will be settled anytime soon. A federal mediator has been brought in to direct negotiations.
The strike has hit about 3,500 commuters from Rockland, Orange and northern New Jersey particularly hard. Riders have had to scramble to find other means to get into New York City. In Rockland, about 750 commuters use Short Line’s express service from the Exit 14 park-and-ride lot in Nanuet, and another 250 or so catch Short Line buses from Suffern to midtown and downtown.
(Source: LoHud.com)
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They shouldn’t be allowed to bring in scabs to break the union. That’s what Greyhound did, in 1983, and put a lot of people out of work. Bauman School Bus did that in Mt. Kisco, NY, they had two bus loads of drivers, from their Long Island garage, waiting at a motel in Mt. Kisco, to see what the drivers were going to do, on Moday morning, The drivers didn’t know they were there. They walked off the job, and the scabs jumped into the busses and did the runs. They broke the union…
to #1 Either you belong to a Union or you never dealt with a Union.
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I don’t like the train and parking in NYC cost me $69 for last weekend. I MISS my bus service — some of the most efficient, polite drivers ever. This is a terrible inconvenience but we have to support the drivers.