School bus mechanics with First Student in Nashua, New Hampshire, have voted to join Teamsters Local 633 in Manchester, bringing all of the First Student school bus workers at this location under Teamster representation.
About 190 drivers and monitors at this location were already Teamsters, and in April, four dispatchers and clerical staff also joined Local 633. With this latest vote, the mechanics have joined their brothers and sisters to make for a complete Teamster work force in Nashua.
“We welcome the mechanics group to the Teamsters, as we continue to work to improve the lives of school bus workers throughout New England,” said David W. Laughton, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Joint Council 10.
The victory is the latest in an effort to organize private school bus and transit workers across the country. Drive Up Standards is a national campaign to improve safety, service and work standards in the private school bus and transit industry. Since the campaign began in 2006, more than 27,500 drivers, monitors, aides, mechanics and attendants have become Teamsters.
For more information on the Drive Up Standards campaign, go to: www.schoolbusworkersunited.org
Founded in 1903, the Teamsters Union represents more than 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
