{"id":51007,"date":"2021-10-25T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=51007"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:50:58","slug":"bus-driver-shortage-or-is-it-a-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/bus-driver-shortage-or-is-it-a-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver shortage or is it a strike?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lehigh Acres families received a text about a bus driver shortage on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/lee-c-bus.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students experienced delays while waiting to be picked up for school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County School officials said about 100 drivers were out on Monday, impacting several bus routes and several thousand students. The school district has around 650 drivers in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to their contact, bus drivers are not allowed to go on \u2018strike\u2019. If they do, they risk disciplinary action and termination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a driver who asked to remain anonymous, drivers are \u201ckind of\u201d on strike. He believes the shortage might happen again on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres families received a text about a bus driver shortage on Monday morning. Students experienced delays while waiting to be picked up for school. Lee County School officials said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51009,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51007\/revisions\/51009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}