With yesterday’s big victory at Durham in Kansas City, we have reached a major milestone! Since we started organizing with the Teamsters across the country in 2006, 25,000 bus workers at First Student, Durham, Baumann and other companies have joined the Teamsters. 

School bus drivers and monitors with Durham School Services in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted overwhelmingly, 203-63, to join Teamsters Local 838, sending a strong message to the company that they are standing united for safety, respect and proper treatment on the job.

We’re voting in our Teamster elections this week at Durham in Kansas City, Missouri, and at First Student in Verona, Illinois and Duxbury, Massachusetts. Keep checking out this page for vote results! We want to thank all of our coworkers at Durham, First Student and other bus companies nationwide for your overwhelming support!

We’re uniting to form our union with the Teamsters in Kansas City, Missouri. We have our election on February 24 and we have huge support in our campaign! There are more than 1,000 teachers who are standing beside us in our efforts! Find out more about their support by checking out our flier.

Elizabeth Rhodes, a Durham driver in Kansas City, dedicated the following poem to her co-workers who will be voting in their Teamster election on February 24. She wrote this poem after being forced to attend a mandatory anti-union meeting by her Durham managers. This poem is for all the school bus workers who are standing united and demanding that they be treated with the dignity and respect that all human beings - that all school bus workers - deserve.

Here is a statement from Andrea Flinders, President of the Kansas City, Missouri, Federation of Teachers and School-Related Personnel, AFT Local 691, to Durham school bus workers.

We’re joining together and voting in our Teamster elections! We have votes coming up this month at First Student and Durham in Illinois, Missouri, Rhode Island and Connecticut! Stay tuned to this web site for the latest information on our wins!

Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa denounced today National Express Group PLC Chairman John Devaney’s decision to join Cobham PLC’s board as chairman designate given his ongoing responsibilities at the embattled transport company.

We stood up for our rights to freely form our union and improve our jobs at Durham in Kansas City, Missouri! Check out our flier and the letter we delivered to our bosses!

We have a date for our Teamster election at Durham in Kansas City, MO – February 24, 2010!