Our Bus Yard Issues

Raising Wages, Improving Access to Healthcare, & Gaining Respect

Our members working in student transportation face many challenges on the job, from providing safe, reliable service to our public school children, to reducing the high turnover in our bus yards. The issues our members are committed to addressing in our bus yards, at the negotiating table, and in the State’s General Assembly include:

 Increasing retention by raising income standards and creating opportunities for access to affordable health care for bus yard workers

 Providing additional training for all bus drivers to meet State and Federal student transportation safety standards

 Establishing and protecting bus yard workers’ rights to representation

 Enforcing workplace safety and health standards for bus yard workers and the children we serve

 National Highway Transportation Safety Administration "Bus Safety" page

 US Department of Labor’s "Bus Drivers" page

 CT Department of Environmental Protection's report on diesel exhaust on school bus drivers and students