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Put on your seatbelts... and learn how the San Francisco school bus drivers took the wheel of their union.
In the early 1970s, San Francisco school bus drivers earned starvation wages. But a wave of young progressives, drawn to the city and determined to organize, transformed the industry. Amid threats of violence and red-baiting, they led two strikes that secured the highest wages in the nation for school bus drivers—and influenced federal labor law in the process. Decades later, that legacy is under siege. In the 2020s, these same drivers faced an existential threat from a ride-sharing app vying for their public contract—replacing unionized drivers with gig workers. School Bus Movie is a personal and political film about labor, dignity, and generational change, asking: What did America have in the 1970s that it desperately needs today?
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