Educational support staff like cafeteria workers, bus drivers and IT assistants at Aurora Public Schools are demanding the district let them unionize .

According to Aurora's non-educating school workers, the want to to bargain for better wages. Their cause drew upwards of 100 supporters to the APS Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, August 19.

"I know I'm important. I know I do an important job," Anne Wolfe, an administrative assistant for the APS Athletics and Activities Department, told Westword before the meeting. "I work very hard, and I take my job seriously. I'm here for students, and sometimes it doesn't feel like the administration is here for that reason.

Educational support jobs can include special education paraeducators (also know as teacher's aides), custodians an

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