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Seat belts on school buses? This Macon facility will start manufacturing them

A new school bus safety plant in Macon is bringing enhanced safety features, including seat belts, to school buses. What do ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Blue Bird gets $80 million to convert old plant to make electric buses

Blue Bird, the iconic Georgia bus-maker, is receiving $80 million from the federal government as part of a $1.7 billion effort to convert shuttered auto factories into manufacturing and assembly ...
The Telegraph

U.S. Labor Secretary visits Blue Bird facilities following historic union contract

United States Deputy Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su addresses event attendees while celebrating Blue Bird’s union contract on Friday, July 19, 2024, at the Blue Bird manufacturing plant in Fort ...
Detroit News

Bus maker Blue Bird embraces an electrified future

The site where Muhammad Ali’s motor home was built will soon be humming again. Not that The Greatest was the only one to snap up a WanderLodge back in the day when Blue Bird workers were churning out ...
Gizmodo

This Iconic American Yellow Bus Company Is Ramping Up Its Electric Bus Production

Workers at the new Blue Bird factory assembling electric school buses. Photo: Blue Bird Blue Bird, the more than 90-year-old manufacturer of the iconic American yellow school bus, is ramping up its ...
The New York Times

Flush With Federal Money, Strings Attached, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize

Friday’s victory by the United Steelworkers at a factory building electric school buses was a test for Democratic hopes that clean-energy funding from Washington could bolster organized labor. By ...
WMAZ

Blue Bird bus manufacturer lays off over 100 workers, citing supply chain issues and pandemic

FORT VALLEY, Ga. — The Blue Bird Corporation is one of Peach County's major employers and an economic driver. After an unexpected layoff put more than 100 people out of work, some are asking what ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Workers at Georgia school bus maker Blue Bird vote to unionize

FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP) — Workers in Georgia at one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers have voted to unionize. Employees at Blue Bird Corp. chose to be represented by the United ...
In These Times

The Labor Movement Just Scored One of Its Biggest Victories in the South This Century

After a bruising three-year fight, workers at school bus manufacturer Blue Bird in Fort Valley, Georgia, voted May 12 to join United Steelworkers (USW) Local 697. “It’s not a single important win.
AOL

U.S. Labor Secretary visits Blue Bird facilities following historic union contract

Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su made a stop in Fort Valley on Friday to celebrate Blue Bird bus factory workers’ approving their first union-negotiated labor contract. Workers approved the ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A new world coming: Bus maker Blue Bird embraces an electrified future

The site where Muhammed Ali’s motor home was built will soon be humming again. Not that The Greatest was the only one to snap up a WanderLodge back in the day when Blue Bird workers were churning out ...