A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible

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By Gautama MehtaJun 7, 2024, 4:30 am207 pts
For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America’s iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in Fort Valley, a town of 9,000 people surrounded by peach and pecan orchards in central Georgia. Carolyn Allen has worked at Blue Bird for 13 years, and she talks about this fact almost as…

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