Everyone was on board except for First Student. We agreed to their demands, and they lied to us. |
He puts out a general order saying it's OK, and when things heat up, instead of standing behind his people, he backs away and abandons them to protect himself. |
In our view, that's retaliation for what he said. |
It's a last-ditch effort to divide us from their employees before the election on May 16. If we were trespassing, we'd be moved. If we were threatening people, we'd be arrested. |
The FOP is a fine fraternal organization, but there's only one union on the ballot, and that's the Teamsters. |
There has to be a regular performance audit to do a comprehensive analysis to determine how the funds are performing. We can't come to the bargaining table with information that's six years old. |
This is a good example of why officers need some due process. They need a grievance and arbitration procedure, so if they don't think the action taken by the department is warranted they have some recourse. |
We just have to make sure when we come to meetings like this, we both come with a good faith effort. To ask our input a week before is not an appropriate amount of time to do that. |
We're talking days not weeks to address these problems. We're going to be asking parents to prepare for alternative transportation so these drivers can be heard. |