PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Parents may soon need to make alternate plans for getting their children to school as negotiations between the Teamsters and school bus company First Student enter the final 48 hours.
On Monday, dozens of bus drivers and monitors were out holding signs in Pawtucket as part of a nationwide push for better benefits.
Tom Kurtz, who’s been a bus monitor with Pawtucket Public Schools for about a decade, said he and 150 fellow members of Teamsters Local 251 are prepared to go on strike…