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The drivers rejected what the company had called its final offer by a margin of 3 to 1. Reporters were not allowed into the meeting, but union members who attended and would talk agreed it was a lively one. While parents were finding other ways to get their

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children to school, the associated charter bus company had put together what it called a $1 million package over a 3 year period for its 200 drivers. Salaries would have gone from the present $200 a week. To $230 a week the first year and $249 a week

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by the third year. Medical and life insurance benefits would have also been increased. From the striker's viewpoint, it obviously wasn't enough. They gave us a last, best and final offer. I kind of call it a last worst and final offer. What we want them to do

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is we want them to sit down and talk to us. We don't want any more of this nickel and diming. We want them to siddown and talk about wages and working conditions. These people have the money. They get $137 for a bus, and under our

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last proposal they would pay us less than $36. They've got the money. We want some of it. We don't want it to go to Philadelphia. What about the mayor's threat that he'll find ... What about the mayor's threat that he'll find someone in some other way then to bus the children

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to school? I think that it would be very difficult for any other way to be found to bus the children. What it came down to was this: the company made a challenge and a final offer. The union took the challenge and rejected the final offer.

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The union now says it's prepared to wait for whatever happens. In San Francisco, Bob Navarro, Channel 5, Eyewitness News.