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TheWeek Review
School Bus Drivers May Strike
February 12, 2014
for the first time. Wireless Emergency Alerts sent
out a special alert tone and 90 character messages
Sunday to all enabled phones urging residents to
stay inside to avoid the weather conditions.
Amalgamated Transit Union and the school bus
company First Student met with mediators last Oregon Not Prepared for Disaster
week, but failed in an attempt to settle an A new state audit released on Monday concluded
employment contract for school bus drivers. The that Oregon may not be able to prepare for a major
last labor agreement for the group expired nearly disaster due to insufficient planning and organiza
one and a half years ago. The union says a strike tion problems at the Office of Emergency to
is imminent over proposed cuts to health care Management.
benefits.
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TriMet Calls for Mediator in Labor Talks
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The snow and freezing rain that hit the metro-
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using brand new technology to warn residents
Officers responded to calls of an armed robbery at
Mad Hanna’s Tavern in the Cully Neighborhood
at 1:25 a.m. on Monday. Two suspects fled the
scene before police could detain them.