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To: Qwackertoo

I'd like to know if the Bus Drivers Union contract has anything about being emergency evacuation participants in it.


35 posted on 09/08/2005 11:57:25 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: massgopguy
I'd like to know if the Bus Drivers Union contract has anything about being emergency evacuation participants in it.

This, to me, is the issue with them. If the city didn't have this in the contract, then I can't blame the drivers. It's not like the police force quitting. I'd LIKE to think they would have done the job if it was expected of them, but we don't know. At any rate, the city was unprepared. A designated group of off-duty police could have been tapped to drive these buses even if it's not in the labor contract. They had 48 hours to get it done, even if they couldn't drive all the buses at once.

43 posted on 09/08/2005 12:01:38 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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It may have been wrong information but I heard the other day that half of the school buses were owned by the STATE and the other were owned by individuals [contractors].

If I understood the Gov. is the only one who could release the state owned bussed. It didn't say anything about the privately owned buses, how that could be handled.

It looks to me if the owners of the privately owned had no other way out, they could have taken their families and as many as they could load up get them out of there.

I wonder if any of those owners lost their lives or did they leave another way.

I may have misunderstood this. Maybe someone can research and see if it's true.
66 posted on 09/08/2005 1:00:02 PM PDT by frannie (Be not afraid of tomorrow - God is already there!)
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