This is super cool -- the first real fruit to come from the alliance of Techies and Teamsters at the Yearly Kos Convention:
Kossacks and Teamsters are joining together to win justice for school bus drivers!The response to my Teamsters at YearlyKos; A Call to Action! diary was phenomenal. So many of you participated in the thread that we managed to impress the Teamsters.
Today they called me and we started working together with one specific goal in mind; the unionization of school bus workers in the US. So, thank you Kossacks, now the fun starts...
I will create a mailing list of volunteers and keep everyone informed of new diaries (we need Recommends to get exposure) and new developments.
I am looking for people who want to help brainstorm strategy (I will create a Yahoo Group for the steering committee), contact local or national media and government, picket if necessary and in general bring other Kossacks up to speed about how to work with unions.
We have us a worthy adversary, First Group of the UK owns First Student in the US which in turn has acquired Laidlaw. These are big guys, a multi billion global transportation conglomerate, but I know we are up to the challenge.
Want to pitch in? E-mail schoolbusworkers(at)yahoo(dot)com. And thanks to Daily Kos diarist Shockwave for taking the lead on this!
