The union representing New York City's school bus drivers reached a tentative three-year settlement yesterday with 25 bus companies, averting a strike that had threatened to inconvenience 37,000 summer school students starting today. The union, which represents 8,400 bus drivers, escorts and mechanics, declined to give details of the accord, including the size of the wage increase, which was reached four days after the old contract expired.
See "Tentative Pact Averts Strike by City School Bus Drivers", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, July 5, 2006