Fired for being Pro Union, other wise being human is a crime also. Check this out.

How fair is it to be fired for being human, for having a slip of the tungue. Yes, I said the B.S. word in front of 7th & 8th graders who have said a lot of worse words including the F word. It was a route that has been written up by my self and the regular driver as well as other drivers before her. The last couple of years it is always the same kids The School suspends them for a week and they do the samre thing. Other wise nothing was really done to these kids. Yes I said the B S word in front of them after they caused a unsafe situation and then at one of the Drop Off Stops, these same kids decided to run along side the bus as I started to pull away, were the parents made aware of these students actions, somehow I doubt it, but mom and dad get on the phone and say how dare that driver say the B S word in front of my angel. The Middle School asked that I don't drive any of there routes again. They did not ask for my termination.

I was a Stand-By driver at Hodgkins, Illinois First Student. I admited my faults did as I was asked by management wrote a incident report, wrote a more thurough report on a legal pad. It was my only mistake on a school bus. I have never had one preventable accident in seven years, I have never hit a student. I never got lost, Always new where I was going and how to get there safely and expediately. Never left a Charter Customer wondering where am I. I always gave the customer my cell phone number as a just in case.

Unlike others, yes who did get fired, after they had many mistakes and then three preventable accidents including running over a child, that was not supervised properly by its parent. There has been another incident where a Driver and monitor were terminated only after FOX NEWS brought it to the attention of a local High School, that these people were still working after that High School asked for there termination. They were caught being verbally and physically abusive by a phone video camera. There is one person who had three preventable accidents with Laidlaw, just prior to First Students buy out. First Student knows about it. He still works there as a Stand By Driver and helps in the dispatch office!

I did try the Peer Reviw Program, that was a mistake. Two Managers, and three drivers on the assembled committee with the operations manager running the meeting and the terminal contract manager, the one who terminated me, also present. The three Drivers two who are totally against a Union, one of which throgh his life has qualified for the special olympics. And the third with the video on hand no matter what I did or said I was wrong. Yet, every time I have requested a copy of the findings of the Peer Review Committee, once written and twice verbally, I have not received a copy of that document. I was notified by phone by the operations manager, that the peer review committee findings upheld managements decision. If thats true, it is no wonder, they were saving there own butts. I guess the only mistake that really counted in the eyes on management, they didn't say it, but it is the only other reason posible. I was Pro Union/Pro Family, and was in the position as the person leading the Union organizing effort.