On December 4th, over a hundred San Francisco school bus drivers who are members of United Transportation Union (UTU) 1741 picketed and protested the illegal firings and union-busting tactics by Scottish-owned First Student. This company, which recently purchased Laidlaw, is in a war to bust the union by firing bus drivers in violation of their contract and for incidents that have nothing to do with their driving record.

First Student, the largest school bus company in the world, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, recently took over Laidlaw bus company and is now in a massive union-busting drive against unionized bus drivers. It is ignoring union contracts, illegally firing drivers and ignoring arbitration decisions.

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