Fort Bend Independent School District bus drivers won a long-fought battle with the school district at last night’s board meeting, when trustees voted 5-2 in favor of giving the drivers and monitors paid sick leave.
Board President Sonal Bhuchar and Trustee Laurie Caldwell voted against change.
Bus drivers and monitors have historically received only five days of personal leave, while other district employees earn up to five days of paid sick leave as well.
Bus drivers have spoken at board meeting, expressing frustration at the situation with many saying they felt the district does not value them as employees.
In August, the board adopted revisions to Board Policy that did not include sick leave for the bus drivers and monitors. At the request of board members Daniel Menendez and Susan Hohnbaum, the issue was brought before the board again in September.
Anthony Lacsamana, field organizer for the Fort Bend Employee Federation, spoke at Monday night’s meeting before the board voted on the issue. He said the change would “demonstrate a good faith effort of the district to right a past wrong.”
“It is clear that some members of the board have made a decision on the side of fairness,” said Lacsamana. He said the change was a fiscally responsible one, and that “for far too long the district has made considerable investment into new drivers only to lose them.”
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I heard that Jenney had an outburst at the latest board meeting about absences and said something like, "You chose to work at this job and so you need to be at work when you are supposed to!" - does anyone know the truth behind this? This whole absence thing I think is stupid! Yes, I know we have a responsibility to be at work, but we also have days available to us if we need them. You should not be made to feel guilty or afraid of losing your job if you have to take off work because you are sick or need to take care of a personal matter!! I heard he took off work to run the Boston Marathon!!! Is that necessary? Stop treating us like we are your red-headed step children!!
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