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Sartell‑St. Stephen staff urge board to avoid transportation outsourcing as union seeks mediation
Summary
Support staff told the board they fear a district plan to contract out transportation and described rising costs and low pay; trustees said negotiations remain active and the teachers’ union has filed for mediation.
Support staff and custodial employees pressed the Sartell‑St. Stephen School Board at its November meeting to protect in‑house transportation and address pay and benefits as contract negotiations proceed.
"The possibility that transportation services could be subcontracted entirely out by the end of the school year," said Jody Heneman, a district bus driver, who described decades of combined service among transportation employees and urged the board to "consider ways to keep our current transportation staff in place." She warned that replacing longtime…
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