Fired Over Finger, Driver Wants Job Back

AP ^ | 11/2/6 | GENE JOHNSON

[SmithL]

Seattle -- A school bus driver fired after she reportedly made an obscene gesture at President Bush has filed a union grievance in an attempt to get her job back.

The 43-year-old driver, whose name was not released, was driving middle school children back to school after a zoo visit on June 16 when the president and Republican Rep. Dave Reichert drove slowly by in a motorcade.

From the bus, the children waved; with the windows down in their car, Bush and Reichert waved back.

That's when the driver gave the president the finger, according to Reichert and Issaquah superintendent Janet Barry.

"The congressman hadn't seen it, but the president turned to him and said, 'That one's not a fan,'"

. . . District spokeswoman Sara Niegowski said the driver has filed a wrongful termination grievance through the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union did not return calls seeking comment.

. . . "The bus driver was not terminated for making an obscene gesture at the president. The bus driver was terminated for making an obscene gesture in view of the students," Niegowski said. "That's not the role modeling we need for our students."

[onevoter]

". District spokeswoman Sara Niegowski said the driver has filed a wrongful termination grievance through the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees"

I was once forced to belong to this joke of a union - they took dues out of your paycheck whether you wanted to be part of the union or not. These wing-nuts are probably cheering idiots like this bus driver on - it seemed that most of the dues that were taken out of me were spent to drum up support for every useless Dem on the ticket. When they passed Campaign Reform, this use of funds by Unions should have been on the top of the list.

[lepton]

"The bus driver was not terminated for making an obscene gesture at the president. The bus driver was terminated for making an obscene gesture in view of the students,"

That's the right answer.

[an amused spectator]

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well,"

"If you don't, you get stuck flipping off the president while driving a bus filled with children."

On the other hand, she'll have lots of time to vote early & often next Tuesday...

[VeniVidiVici]

These ACORN types get away with far too much.

Toss her under the bus.