UAW  Amalgamated Local 677

First Student Unit

Chairperson                            -            Bill Varner

Alt. Chair                                 -            Ron Gogle

Recording Secretary              -            Linda Santo

Sergeant-At-Arms                  -            Ron Rutman

Guide                                        -             Ed Buttner

Beersville Steward                -              Connie Rex

Beersville Alternate              -              Pam Cantebene

Cherryville Steward              -             Ralph Tobias

Cherryville Alternate            -             Tom Evans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our mechanics start each day by 5:30 a.m, dealing with both tempermental buses and drivers. Anything that can leak, break or not work, will leak, break or not work.

 

They come to the rescue when a bus breaks down during a run; plow the bus yards; remove snow from the roofs of nearly one hundred vehicles, all the while pulling vehicles for mainteneance and state inspections.

 

Mark Solt was in the the first auto shop class ever to attend the Bethlehem Vocational Technical School and went on to be an auto shop instructor for thirty years.

 

Our mechanic foreman, who unfortunely cannot be a union member, brings from his Air Force background a “Can Do!” attitude, organizational skills and a team spirit.

 

Despite budgets and our companys’ challenges, these men are usually patient and good humored. They do the impossible under impossible conditions.

 

 

First Student Mechanics

Photo by Edwin Buttner

By Pam Cantabene - Alternate Shop Steward - First Student Unit

Representing workers of Mack Trucks Shop, Office, Engineering, Reman, Americold Logistics,

Lower Saucon Township, First Student Northampton

 

Chartered in 1939