Legislation Creates Path for Bus Workers to
Access Unemployment During School Closures
TOPEKA,
Kan., May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters
Local 696 commends Governor Laura
Kelly (D) for signing HB 2570, legislation that creates a
path to unemployment for private sector bus workers in Kansas. This new law will alleviate the
financial hardships bus workers face when their place of employment
is closed.
"This victory took persistence, hard work, and hundreds of
school bus drivers over the course of several years attending lobby
days in Topeka and making their
voices heard," said Matt Hall,
Secretary-Treasurer and Political Coordinator for Local 696. "Thank
you to Rep. Sean Tarwater for
sponsoring this much-needed amendment, all of the state legislators
who voted for it, and Governor Kelly for making it law. This is a
step in the right direction, but we will keep fighting to ensure
Kansas bus workers have the
benefits and protections they deserve."
For more than a decade, Kansas Teamsters and bus workers lobbied
members of the state legislature to ensure bus workers had access
to unemployment benefits when school is not in session. When
workers in other industries are out of work, they have access to
unemployment benefits and this law creates a critical path for bus
workers to access those same benefits.
Teamsters Local 696 represents workers in a wide variety of
industries throughout Northern
Kansas, including UPS workers, public employees, school bus
drivers, sanitation workers, and more. For more information, go to
teamsters696.com.
Contact:
Daniel
Moskowitz, (770)
262-4971
Dmoskowitz@teamster.org
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