School bus drivers and matrons who remain on the picket line are now without health benefits. Since the strike began in mid-January, medical insurance remained in effect for the rest of that month, but the coverage ends now that it’s February.
The drivers union is blaming the city for the rising cost of busing.
Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181 says its drivers are the victims of an inefficient system.
The union says busing costs are going up because more and more students need special education, and many of those students need to be taken to schools far away from the city.
(Source: NY1)
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Union members are a bunch of whiners. The real inefficiency is how cities got soaked because of union contracts. Somehow they think if they strike, the city will cave. New york shouyld do like Reagan did with air traffic controllers and fire them all and hire new ones