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Transportation worker urges higher wages, cites route cancellations and mediation
Summary
A District 196 transportation driver and SEIU 284 steward told the board the district's wages (cited $24.15/hour) are uncompetitive with neighboring districts (cited $28/hour) and said route cancellations and staff shortages would persist without higher pay; the comment was raised during public communications ahead of mediation.
During the special communications portion of the Jan. 12 meeting, Catherine Briggs, a transportation driver and SEIU Local 284 steward, told the board the district should have canceled school on a December day when police investigated a credible threat, saying that by not doing so the district “placed students, teachers, school staff, and transportation employees in danger.”…
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