Author: Christopher J. Valentino

Hundreds of workers voted to strike on April 3, 2022, at the St. Cloud New Flyer plant, which produces buses for transit agencies across the country. Photo courtesy of Metro Transit. Ninety-seven percent of workers at the New Flyer bus manufacturing plant in St. Cloud voted to authorize a strike on Sunday and say they’ll walk off the job if the company doesn’t meet their demands for higher pay, sick time, paid religious holidays and limits on mandatory overtime. The workers have not said when they might start a strike, which threatens to disrupt shipments of electric, diesel and hybrid…