I think this was a bad decision on the part of the school bus drivers.What they may get another dollar a hour and their benefits will remain the same and look the union will just take their money they get for union dues.Like some said in the other article what do they really want a cushioned seat.Next thing we will be seeing is the drivers do not like the offer and want to strike and our children will not get to school.Believe me the union is not going to do anything for the guy that works his but off and does his job but they rather they will take care of the lazy ones and protect them. All Along while this is going on they will take your union dues and sit on their butts and get fat(have you seen the average business rep).This could potentially be a very sticky situation.And all this union is going to do as well is protect those drivers out there that are driving to fast,and are really a danger and when they are reported the company will not be able to repermand them and they will continue to do the same with our children on board their bus.Unions are a thing of the past in my opinion and had a place in time but that time was long ago look what they have done for St Joseph ,kept good manufacturing jobs from locating here and so forth we could go on and on.Just my own opinions and views which everyone in entitled to good luck.

As our fathers said, you must reap what you sow. I hope that we, as a community, are able to live with this. At least this is one job that the Unions can not make it more profitable for the companies to move to Mexico, but I will say that we need to make provisions, and be prepared to start driving our own kids to and from school, because it is inevitable, that there will be strikes, and there darn sure are not enough sidewalks to allow our kids to safetly walk to and from school in St Joe.

I've worked for the School District for three years now in the maintenance dept. we voted to unionize before the last levy vote it failed big time, because of scare tactics for the district office. It's not about the money or the insurance it's about being able to talk to a representative other than your boss about problems you have on the job. The lines of communication between upper management and lower level employees is broke big time. They post for job within the district and get filled without interviewing people or they let them apply and fill it with a relative. You can email your supervisors and never get a return. Who do you turn to. Look at the lines of communication between the public and the district about the future of the district, it doesn't exist they went out found a out of town company to tell them what the future is. The teachers are union, now the drivers are, it's time the maintenance dept. follows suit. Go around and look other districts around the state a lot of them are unions.

kcroyl85, I think if you talk to the teachers, you will find that very few of them look at the organization they are in as a union. First off, MSTA, the group you are talking about, is a group made up of administrators and teachers, making it kind of hard for teachers to receive any help in regard to difficulties with their administrators. For young teachers, the expectation is that you will join MSTA if you want to stay in good with downtown. Many teachers will tell you that MSTA is very weak at dealing for individual teachers who may have a problem with administrators.