Louisiana school bus drivers union gets banned for study on bus temperatures
written by Joe638NYC
at Sunday, December 16, 2007
From AFT-NCLB Blog - Dec.12th
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When school started this year, bus drivers in one of our local unions in Louisiana, the Caddo Federation of Teachers and Support Personnel, collected data on the temperatures in their buses. They found cases where the thermometer hit more than 110 degrees. The union took this information to the school board in an effort to get some relief, for both the drivers and the children.
The district’s response to the union raising the issue was to ban the conducting of surveys or studies on school grounds without the permission of the administration.Read Full Story
