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Put on your seatbelts... and learn how the San Francisco school bus drivers took the wheel of their union.
Driving a school bus… the job paid starvation wages. In 1970s San Francisco the school bus drivers said, “No more!” Despite threats of violence and red-baiting, they took the wheel of their union. Two game-changing strikes took place, and it changed their history. Next: they helped change federal labor law. Living conditions for tens of thousands of struggling families have improved because of these drivers, but today organized labor has diminished. This documentary feature asks us: What did those school bus drivers—and America—have in the 1970s that our country desperately needs today?
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