A potential strike by school bus drivers in the Greater Toronto Area could affect tens of thousands of students across the region, and leave riders at 28 Toronto schools without transportation on Thursday morning. Contract negotiations between First Student Canada, which provides school bus drivers across the GTA, and Unifor, a union representing workers at the bus company, are expected to continue up until midnight Wednesday. Unifor has said it will strike at 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning if a fair contract isn’t reached. “School bus drivers deserve decent wages and working conditions and we’re not willing to settle for less from First Student,” said Debbie Montgomery, president of the union local, in a statement issued last week. The Toronto District School Board said nine of its schools could be affected by the strike, while 19 Toronto Catholic District School Board schools could be without buses.

Source: thestar November 29, 2017 21:33 UTC