On Friday, August 19, Teamsters Local 179 filed an unfair labor practice charge against Minooka School District 201.

The issue is the district's solicitation of teachers and teacher's aides to use district vehicles to transport special needs students to and from school.  This is yet another safety issue by the district to put untrained personnel in vehicles to transport students in an attempt to thwart the drivers' efforts to form their union.

Local 179 President Tom Flynn said, "I am outraged at the district's casual attitude toward safety and we will push this labor relations issue as far as the law allows."