New bus provider for Seattle The school district will continue the union relationship
SEATTLE, October 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Bus service for students in Seattle The school district continues to be provided exclusively by Teamsters after Zūm drivers were organized with Teamsters Local 174.
The workers’ decision to join the Teamsters was finalized by voluntary endorsement last week after a neutral third party confirmed that a majority of the workers had elected to join the Teamsters. The school district could eventually add more than 200 new members to Local 174 once Zūm finishes hiring drivers.
“We are proud to welcome our newest members to Zūm in the Teamster family and look forward to a bright future with this group,” he said Rick Hicks, Local 174 Secretary-Treasurer. “Seattle is a union city, and school bus driving is a union industry, so we’re happy that Zūm decided to let its workers make their own decisions instead of fighting against them. These drivers have chosen Teamsters Union and together we want to prove it was the right move.”
All Seattle School bus service was contracted to First Student until that school year, when the Seattle The school district decided to terminate the contract between First Student and Zūm – a California-based company new to the area. Local 174 immediately began organizing the group, meeting regularly with new hires and collecting signed union authorization cards.
Now that the entity has been certified, negotiation of an initial Teamster agreement to protect workers’ rights in the workplace can begin.
Teamsters Local 174 was founded in 1909 and represents 8,600 working men and women in Seattle and the surrounding areas. “Like” on Facebook under www.facebook.com/TeamstersLocal174.
Contact:
Jamie Fleming(425) 281-0166
jfleming@teamsters174.org
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