School bus drivers and monitors contracted to serve a southern Vermont school district were finally able to get behind the wheel on Tuesday after their private employer ended its lockout of their union. As the contentious contract negotiations continue, school district officials are getting more involved.

Travel Kuz lifted its lockout of Windham Southeast Supervisory Union Schools bus drivers and monitors represented by the Vermont Teamsters Local 597 union on Labor Day.

The union spent nearly two weeks picketing after their employer Travel Kuz, a subsidiary of Beacon Mobility, locked them out of the company’s Vermont headquarter offices in Brattleboro amid contract disputes. Travel Kuz sent a cease and desist letter to the union last week, accusing the union of "unlawful picketing" an

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